Wildfire near Mangualde, Portugal (2026)

Wildfire near Mangualde — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near Mangualde — 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 statusMonitoringNot fought: watched. Usually remote terrain.

JurisdictionANEPC

The story so far

About 10 km southeast of Mangualde.

Summary written on Aug 7, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

Burning near Mangualde, Portugal, an active wildfire has scorched 100 hectares, or 247 acres, since it started on August 6, 2026. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the front, alongside four heat detections over the past 48 hours that cluster nearby to mark the spread.

A response force of three personnel from the ANEPC agency is deployed to the incident. The broader wildfire landscape in Portugal features a typical fire season running from June to October. So far in 2026, the country has seen 50,670 hectares burn, tracking 52 percent below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Portugal for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 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.