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Wildfires in Sortelha

Sortelha, Portugal: 5 fires since 2017 burned 4,377 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 20° · 32 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 17° · 35 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 36 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 37 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 43 % · 25 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

4,377
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
5
fires
40
km²

How many times has Sortelha burned?

Sortelha has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Sabugal fire, August 2025, with 2,884 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,377 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,188 hectares, 80 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
5
years with fire
4,377
cumulative ha
3,188
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 Sortelha

  1. 2,884 ha Sabugal fire, August 2025 73% of the municipality · 23,594 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 197 ha Sabugal fire, August 2022 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 331 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 392 ha Sabugal fire, July 2021 where it started 9.9% of the municipality · 447 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 410 ha Sabugal fire, August 2020 10% of the municipality · 712 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 493 ha Sabugal fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 12% of the municipality · 504 ha in total · 6 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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