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Wildfires in Vale do Côa

Vale do Côa, Portugal, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,759 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 28 Low 20° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 19° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 13° · 45 % · 40 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

1,759
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
6
fires
52
km²

How many times has Vale do Côa burned?

Vale do Côa has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Pinhel fire, July 2025, with 192 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
1,759
cumulative ha
1 Jul 2025
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 Vale do Côa

  1. 192 ha Pinhel fire, July 2025 3.7% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 188 ha Pinhel fire, 21 August 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 268 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 108 ha Vale do Côa fire, August 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 292 ha Pinhel fire, August 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 391 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 191 ha Vale do Côa fire, 20 August 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 201 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 789 ha Vale do Côa fire, 10 August 2016 where it started 15% of the municipality · 1,337 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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