Wildfire near Mangualde
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Fire (SWIR)
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).
Quick facts
- Personnel
- 2
- Jurisdiction
- ANEPC
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.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Portugal
Across Portugal, roughly 65,354 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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