Wildfires in Tarouca
Tarouca, Portugal: 4 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,199 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tarouca in August 2025, with 405 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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.
- hectares burned
- 1,199ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 10%
- 116 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 405ha
- Tarouca · August 2025
- Inhabitants
- 4,394
- 272.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Low 21° · 39 % · 18 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 19° · 46 % · 16 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 19° · 46 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 18° · 37 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 16° · 37 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 13° · 42 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 11° · 45 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 13° · 52 % · 24 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- São João de Tarouca 460 inhabitants 952 ha · 51 %
- Várzea da Serra 207 inhabitants 352 ha · 17 %
- União das Freguesias de Tarouca e Dálvares 689 inhabitants 176 ha · 8.0 %
- Cepões, Meijinhos e Melcões 970 inhabitants 41 ha · 3.8 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land56 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland19 %
- Agricultural areas17 %
- Coniferous forest6.5 %
- Mixed forest1.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×São João de Tarouca952 ha
- 3×União das Freguesias de Tarouca e Dálvares176 ha
- 2×Várzea da Serra352 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 405 haTarouca São João de TaroucaAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 382 haCastro Daire LazarimSeptember 2025 · 4 days of 2,067 ha in total
- 322 haSão João de TaroucaApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 1 day
- 282 haAlmofalaOctober 2017 · 1 day of 828 ha in total
- 130 haTarouca Várzea da SerraMarch 2021 · 1 day of 175 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 322 | São João de Tarouca 322 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 787 | Tarouca 405 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 130 | Tarouca 130 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 282 | Almofala 282 ha |
All fires in Tarouca · 5
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 322 haSão João de TaroucaApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 1 day
- 382 haCastro Daire LazarimSeptember 2025 · 4 days of 2,067 ha in total
- 405 haTarouca São João de TaroucaAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 130 haTarouca Várzea da SerraMarch 2021 · 1 day of 175 ha in total
- 282 haAlmofalaOctober 2017 · 1 day of 828 ha in total
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia (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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