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Wildfires in Queiriz

Queiriz, Portugal: 2 fires since 2017 burned 1,169 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 31 Moderate 20° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 28 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 16° · 41 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 13° · 42 % · 47 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 35 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 69 % · 23 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

1,169
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
10
km²

How many times has Queiriz burned?

Queiriz has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Trancoso fire, August 2025, with 784 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,169 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 837 hectares, 86 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,169
cumulative ha
837
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 Queiriz

  1. 784 ha Trancoso fire, August 2025 80% of the municipality · 78,447 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 385 ha Fornos de Algodres fire, October 2017 40% of the municipality · 4,809 ha in total · 2 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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