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Wildfires near Madeira
Updated 2026-10-12 09:24 UTC · VIIRS 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite
- Active fire
none here - Burned before
none here - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
none here
Rings at 50 and 150 km — the same two the counts above use. The blue mark is the coastal point every sea reading on this page is taken at. The rose is the 72-hour mean wind, pointing the way the air is going. Each layer above is its own address, so a view can be shared. Coastline from Natural Earth at 110 m — regional context, not a survey.
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When this ground actually burns
Across the last 10 years our archive records 20 days within 25 km of Madeira on which fire covered five or more separate square kilometres. By month:
The busiest month in the record is August, with 8 of those days. Counting any burning at all gives 129 days and peaks in October: outside summer most Mediterranean detections are agricultural, so that series measures farming rather than fire risk.
375 m heat signatures, about three hours behind the satellite, two passes a day. For evacuation, follow local emergency services.
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Conditions
Forecast peak for 2026-10-12. WHO band Moderate.
Open-Meteo, daily maximum
Surface temperature for 2026-10-12, sampled 2 km offshore.
Open-Meteo marine model
Vector mean of the last 72 hours: from the N at 7 km/h, pushing surface water onto north-facing shores.
At the coastal point stored for this destination, which lies 157° from the centre, that is a offshore component of -6.0 km/h, onshore in 0% of those hours.
Open-Meteo hourly wind at 10 m · 0 h old
| 23 | Excellent |
| 2 | Good |
| 1 | Sufficient |
| 1 | Poor or unclassified |
Nearest: Santiago, 1.8 km, Excellent. Site profile
EU Bathing Water Directive, 2024 season · assessed over four seasons of samples
NOAA publishes a Sargassum Inundation Risk map for the Caribbean and the Gulf, updated daily. It measures the water offshore; wind decides which of it reaches the sand.
Wind over the last 72 hours has been from the N at 7 km/h, pushing surface water onto north-facing shores.
How much weed is on the sand and in the shallows?
NOAA AOML Sargassum Inundation Risk · reports from people at the beach
How this page is put together
Every figure above comes from one of these, and every one of them is redrawn from the live feed each hour.
