Wildfire near Ameixial (PT)
True color
Fire (SWIR)
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True color (left): as the eye sees it.
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Spanning a twenty-day duration, the wildfire near Ameixial, Portugal, consumed 988 hectares of transitional woodland-shrub and broadleaf forest at an average rate of approximately 49 hectares per day. The blaze, which began on June 23, 2026, has now reached its conclusion.
The incident primarily impacted the landscape surrounding Ameixial, marking a significant event for the local ecosystem before the fire was officially declared ended.