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PT · Portugal · Montalegre · 150 inhabitants

Wildfires in Solveira

Solveira, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 394 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Thu 29 Low 18° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 17° · 53 % · 12 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 18° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 17° · 28 % · 20 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 16° · 28 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 9° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 12° · 55 % · 22 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

394
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
2
fires
12
km²

How many times has Solveira burned?

Solveira has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Solveira fire, March 2026, with 167 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
394
cumulative ha
31 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 Solveira

  1. 167 ha Solveira fire, March 2026 where it started 14% of the municipality · 230 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 226 ha Montalegre fire, 20 March 2021 where it started 19% of the municipality · 286 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 22 ha Gralhas fire, February 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 134 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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