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Wildfires in Tropeço

Tropeço, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,003 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% of its area. 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. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 28 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 38 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 61 % · 48 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 51 % · 53 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 91 % · 49 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

1,003
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
3
fires
18
km²

How many times has Tropeço burned?

Tropeço has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Arouca fire, July 2025, with 355 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,003 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 713 hectares, 40 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,003
cumulative ha
713
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 Tropeço

  1. 355 ha Arouca fire, July 2025 20% of the municipality · 6,555 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 131 ha Chave fire, October 2017 7.3% of the municipality · 8,253 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 517 ha Arouca fire, August 2016 29% of the municipality · 30,331 ha in total · 9 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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