Portugal wildfires map 2023 Foreign Office advice as Odemira evacuated

Fires In Portugal 2025. NASA Visible Earth Fires in Portugal "I have never seen anything like it", he told SIC. Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro declared a state of calamity for the hardest-hit areas late Tuesday, invoking powers to mobilize more.

However, Porto is much closer to the affected region, and the main highway between the city and Lisbon was been. More than 100 wildfires stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal on Wednesday, with seven deaths as fires spread out of control over the weekend.

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The mayor of Baião (Porto district) confirms 'several houses hit by flames' - some of them abandoned The government has declared a Situation of Alert for the whole of mainland Portugal from 1pm today until 11.59pm on Tuesday with exceptional measures due to the worsening danger of rural fires. The fires are not impacting southern Portugal, so the Algarve has not been affected

Inferno by the sun loungers Smoke rises in the distance before wildfire destroys hotel as 1,000. A total of 48 forest fires broke out last night in various municipalities of the Alto Minho (Viana do Castelo district), as the rest of the country was being buffeted by high winds and heavy rain ushered in by Depression Martinho "I have never seen anything like it", he told SIC.

Portugal Fires Map 2025 Alis Eugenia. Thanks to the violent storm, the fires were relatively quickly. SIC Notícias has just confirmed that the number of active fires in Portugal right now is up from the earlier count by Civil Protection of 36 to 40