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PT · Portugal · Montalegre · 1,263 inhabitants

Wildfires in Salto

Salto, Portugal, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 831 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 44 % · 48 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 10° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 11° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 12° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 94 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 11° · 95 % · 42 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 91 % · 73 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 94 % · 70 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

831
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
8
fires
78
km²

How many times has Salto burned?

Salto has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Venda Nova e Pondras fire, March 2026, with 39 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
831
cumulative ha
24 Mar 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 Salto

  1. 39 ha Venda Nova e Pondras fire, March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 155 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 17 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1 ha Boticas fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 34 ha Venda Nova e Pondras fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 169 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 44 ha Abadim fire, January 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 470 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 103 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 12 September 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 677 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 14 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 2 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 164 ha Rio Douro fire, September 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 7 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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