Riska: Fire & Weather Alerts

Riska helps you stay informed about wildfires and weather hazards in Portugal, throughout the year. Follow active fires in summer and heavy rain, storms and reported floods in winter, with incident updates, official weather warnings, forecasts and rain radar for the places you care about. To know is to protect.

INDEPENDENT APP — NOT A GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Riska is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any government entity including ANEPC, IPMA, ICNF, or SGIFR. It aggregates publicly available data from the sources listed below and does not generate fire data independently. Information may be delayed or incomplete. In an emergency, follow official authorities and call 112.

SAVE YOUR PLACES
Your home, your land, your village. Save the places that matter to you, check nearby incidents and weather, and set wildfire alerts within your chosen watch radius.

WILDFIRES AND SUMMER CONDITIONS
- Official Civil Protection (ANEPC) incidents and published status updates
- Satellite detections (NASA FIRMS), shown separately from confirmed incidents
- Daily IPMA fire risk by municipality
- Wind direction and weather context around active fires
- Burned-area information and air-quality context

RAIN, STORMS AND WINTER CONDITIONS
- Official IPMA weather warnings
- Local forecasts for rain, wind, gusts and temperature
- Rain radar for recent rainfall, alongside separate rain forecasts
- Reported flooding and other weather-related Civil Protection incidents in mainland Portugal, where available

Reported flood incidents describe events in the source data; they are not predictions of where flooding will occur. Coverage and update times vary by source. Rain radar does not cover Madeira or the Azores.

ALERTS WITH CONTEXT
Understand why an alert matters, with information such as distance, wind direction and incident status. Official data is shown separately from Riska's own interpretation. Notifications depend on your settings, device permissions, connectivity and source availability.

IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
Explore maps, weather and plain explanations of Portugal's fire risk levels, weather warnings and burn restrictions. Designed for local communities and foreign residents alike.

BEFORE AND AFTER
Find preparation guides, burn-restriction information by municipality, recovery resources and burned-area tracking.

DATA SOURCES
1. ANEPC — civil protection — https://www.gov.pt/entidades/autoridade-nacional-de-emergencia-e-protecao-civil
2. IPMA — fire risk, weather — https://www.ipma.pt
3. ICNF/SGIFR — rural fire info — https://www.sgifr.gov.pt
4. NASA FIRMS — satellite detection (VIIRS) — https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
5. EFFIS/Copernicus — burned areas — https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu
6. Copernicus CAMS — air quality — https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu
7. Open-Meteo — local weather forecasts — https://open-meteo.com
8. EUMETNET OPERA — rainfall radar — https://www.eumetnet.eu
9. ECMWF — weather model forecasts — https://www.ecmwf.int
10. OpenStreetMap — base map — https://www.openstreetmap.org

Firefighters (bombeiros) have permanent free access to all features.

DISCLAIMERS
- Not a government service or entity
- Does not replace official emergency communications
- Does not issue evacuation orders or civil protection instructions
- Does not independently verify fire data
- In an emergency, always call 112

Riska was born in Serra da Estrela, after the 2022 fire. We built it because we needed it. Today, that purpose continues through every season.

Operated by Ecosnyp OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia · Contact: office@riska.app
To know is to protect.

Recent changes:
- Clearer incident classification labels.
- View and unfollow incidents from Alerts.
- Wind speed and gusts displayed separately.
- Sign in from restricted map layers without leaving the app.
- Slower burned-area playback that waits for layers to load.
- Larger Layers panel and better positioning of smoke controls.