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PT · Portugal · Sernancelhe · 364 inhabitants

Wildfires in Penso e Freixinho

Penso e Freixinho, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,106 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 78% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 17° · 54 % · 55 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 70 % · 57 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 93 % · 77 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 75 % · 57 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 92 % · 55 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 85 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 70 % · 45 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Sernancelhe: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,106
hectares burned
78 %
of its area
2
fires
14
km²

How many times has Penso e Freixinho burned?

Penso e Freixinho has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Trancoso fire, August 2025, with 767 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,106 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 772 hectares, 54 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
1,106
cumulative ha
772
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal

Fires that entered Penso e Freixinho

  1. 767 ha Trancoso fire, August 2025 54% of the freguesia · 78,447 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 339 ha Sernancelhe fire, August 2020 24% of the freguesia · 2,287 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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