Research · December 2025 · European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EFFIS)
Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2024
Selected by José Miguel Medeiros
The official record of the 2024 fire season, from national reports in 33 countries and satellite analysis for 45. Portugal has its own chapter, covering burnt area, causes, prevention and firefighting.
Key figure
Over 100,000 hectares: burnt across mainland Portugal in a single week of September 2024.
About the publisher
The Joint Research Centre is the European Commission's science service. It runs EFFIS, the EU's reference system for wildfire information.
Useful for
Municipalities, landholders and insurers assessing wildfire exposure and the case for fuel management in central Portugal.
Credit and license Sedano, F., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., Broglia, M., Durrant, T., Boca, R. et al., Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2024, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/0649290, JRC144093. European Union, 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Summary and figure by General Value from the published source. The report belongs to its publisher.