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Wildfires in Pomares

Pomares, Portugal: 3 fires since 2017 burned 6,279 hectares inside its boundaries, 2.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 91 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 13° · 93 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 11° · 96 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 12° · 99 % · 42 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 13° · 80 % · 49 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 15° · 94 % · 58 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 85 % · 56 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 10° · 91 % · 62 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 Arganil: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

6,279
hectares burned
2.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
3
fires
32
km²

How many times has Pomares burned?

Pomares has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 3,114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,279 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,165 hectares, 100 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
6,279
cumulative ha
3,165
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 Pomares

  1. 3,114 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 98% of the freguesia · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 3,164 ha Pombeiro da Beira fire, October 2017 100% of the freguesia · 132,830 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1 ha Aldeia das Dez fire, August 2017 0.0% of the freguesia · 125 ha in total · 1 day

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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