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Wildfires in Telhado

Telhado, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,227 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 34 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 66 % · 15 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 74 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 82 % · 50 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 92 % · 50 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 83 % · 39 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.

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,227
hectares burned
70 %
of its area
2
fires
18
km²

How many times has Telhado burned?

Telhado has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 469 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,227 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 805 hectares, 46 % 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
1,227
cumulative ha
805
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 Telhado

  1. 469 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 27% of the freguesia · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 758 ha Castelejo fire, September 2017 43% 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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