Wildfire near Belver, Portugal (2026)

Wildfire near Belver — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near Belver — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego)

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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

Drag to compare: normal photo on the left, heat brought out on the right.

Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Key facts

Source: NASA FIRMS

Official statusIn ProgressActive, with crews working on it.

JurisdictionANEPC

The story so far

About 10 km southeast of Belver.

A severe wildfire near Belver, Portugal, burned over a period of sixty-six days after igniting on August 18, 2026, during the region's typical fire season that runs from June to October. Satellite monitoring captured an intense heat signature from the fire front before the incident ultimately came to an end. Based on satellite hotspots, the final extent of the fire was roughly an estimated nine hundred fifty hectares, which translates to two thousand three hundred forty-seven acres.

During the firefighting response, the Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil deployed four hundred sixty-eight personnel to manage the emergency near Belver. The incident unfolded within a broader national context where seventy-one thousand five hundred twenty-five hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits thirty-two percent below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Portugal for 1 day. In total it burned about 950 ha (2,347 acres) — around 9.5 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.