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Wildfires in Silvares

Silvares, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,472 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% of its area. 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. Sun 8 Moderate 16° · 59 % · 73 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 70 % · 62 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 96 % · 59 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 98 % · 95 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 89 % · 63 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 80 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 12° · 94 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 12° · 98 % · 63 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

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The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,472
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
3
fires
20
km²

How many times has Silvares burned?

Silvares has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 1,066 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,472 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,384 hectares, 68 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
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  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,472
cumulative ha
1,384
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 Silvares

  1. 1,066 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 52% of the freguesia · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 405 ha Fundão fire, September 2024 where it started 20% of the freguesia · 967 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1 ha Castelejo fire, September 2017 0.1% of the freguesia · 2,434 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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