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Wildfires in Pópulo e Ribalonga

Pópulo e Ribalonga, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 933 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Fri 30 Low 19° · 54 % · 10 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 20° · 35 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 18° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 14° · 43 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 13° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 52 % · 16 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 municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

933
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
3
fires
21
km²

How many times has Pópulo e Ribalonga burned?

Pópulo e Ribalonga has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Alijó fire, July 2026, with 358 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 933 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 717 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
933
cumulative ha
717
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 Pópulo e Ribalonga

  1. 358 ha Alijó fire, July 2026 17% of the municipality · 1,144 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 451 ha Alijó fire, July 2019 21% of the municipality · 685 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 124 ha Pópulo e Ribalonga fire, April 2017 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

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

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