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Wildfires in Possacos

Possacos, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 667 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% 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. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 47 % · 15 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 37 % · 12 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 46 % · 13 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 68 % · 12 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 21° · 55 % · 45 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 65 % · 48 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 80 % · 42 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 Valpaços: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

667
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
2
fires
13
km²

How many times has Possacos burned?

Possacos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Valpaços fire, July 2026, with 581 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
667
cumulative ha
28 Jul 2026
most recent

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 Possacos

  1. 581 ha Valpaços fire, July 2026 45% of the freguesia · 13,065 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 86 ha Valpaços fire, August 2017 where it started 6.6% of the freguesia · 108 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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