Madeira · Live hazard alerts
Active fires and hazards near Madeira's trails right now
We pull every active alert we can trace to an official channel, fire detections, trail closures and weather warnings, and match each one to the nearest marked trail. Nothing here comes from a news scrape or a guess.
This list is only as good as the four official and satellite feeds behind it: satellite detection for active fire, IFCN for trail closures, IPMA for weather warnings, and SRPC for road closures. A small, cloud covered or just started fire can stay invisible to satellite detection for hours, which is exactly what happened near Porto Moniz between 25 and 27 July 2026: firefighters were on scene while the satellite feed showed nothing.
So treat an empty list as "nothing detected by these four feeds", never as "confirmed safe". IFCN's own closure status is the one authority that overrides everything else on this site, including the live trail score. Always check local news and official channels before hiking into a reported wildfire area.
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| Alert | Severity | Date | Detail | Nearest trail(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow warning: Heat | yellow | 2026-08-04 | Heat (yellow). Fonte: IPMA Source: IPMA | Vereda do Areeiro , Vereda da Ilha , Vereda do Pico Ruivo , Vereda da Encumeada , Levada do Furado , Vereda dos Balcões , Caminho Real da Encumeada , Vereda do Fanal , Vereda da Palha Carga , Levada dos Cedros , Caminho do Pináculo e Folhadal , Vereda do Urzal , Caminho do Norte , Vereda do Chão dos Louros , Glaciar de Planalto , Levada da Rocha Vermelha , Vereda do Burro , Caminho Real do Monte , Levada do Barreiro , Levada das 25 Fontes , Levada do Risco , Levada do Alecrim , Vereda da Lagoa do Vento , Levada Velha do Rabaçal , Vereda do Pico Fernandes , Vereda do Túnel do Cavalo , Vereda da Câmara de Carga do Rabaçal , Levada do Paul II , Levada do Caldeirão Verde , Levada do Caldeirão Verde - Um Caminho para todos |
| ER229 closed | red | recorded 2026-07-02 | ER229 closed at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, Câmara de Lobos. Source: SRPC | Levada do Norte , Levada dos Piornais , Vereda da Boca dos Namorados , Passeio Marítimo Câmara de Lobos |
| PR27: Closed / restricted | red | recorded 2026-06-29 | Closed / restricted Source: IFCN | Glaciar de Planalto |
| PR28: Closed / restricted | red | recorded 2026-06-29 | Closed / restricted Source: IFCN | Levada da Rocha Vermelha |
| PR7: Closed / restricted | red | recorded 2026-06-29 | Closed / restricted Source: IFCN | Levada do Moinho |
| PR12: Partly passable | orange | recorded 2026-06-29 | a passable route from Boca da Corrida to km 3.5. Source: IFCN | Caminho Real da Encumeada |
| PR4: Partly passable | orange | recorded 2026-06-29 | Accessible route – there is a signposted path to Ribeira das Cales, next to the Funchal Ecological Park Interpretation Centre. The current version of the route, between Poço da Neve (the start of the PR4), Levada do Barreiro and Ribeira das Cales, is fully signposted in both directions. Source: IFCN | Levada do Barreiro |
| PS-PR3: Closed / restricted | red | recorded 2026-06-29 | Closed / restricted Source: IFCN | Levada do Pico do Castelo |
| PR20: Closed / restricted | red | recorded 2026-06-29 | Closed / restricted Source: IFCN | Vereda do Jardim do Mar |
Two different dates appear in the Date column, and they are not the same measurement. A bare date is the official feed's own start time for the hazard. A date marked "recorded" is when the alert first entered our feed, which is all IFCN and SRPC give us: PR7 has been closed for years and is recorded from the day this check first ran, not from the day it closed.
Fire: satellite detection. Closures: IFCN. Weather warnings: IPMA. Road closures: SRPC. Every alert links to its official source above.
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Common questions
Is this an official safety source?
No. It aggregates four official and satellite feeds, but the aggregation itself is ours, and satellite fire detection can miss small or cloud covered fires for hours. IFCN's own closure status remains the sole official authority, and it already hard overrides the live trail score regardless of this page.
How often is this updated?
The underlying feeds refresh on their own schedules: fire detection every few hours, closures and weather warnings within the day. This page reflects the most recent successful check of each feed, not a live stream.
Why isn't every hazard reported by local news included?
Because a news report cannot be automatically verified the way a government feed can. This page only ever shows alerts we can trace to one of the four official sources above, each linked from its row.
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