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PT · Portugal · Albergaria-a-Velha · 1,875 inhabitants

Wildfires in Angeja

Angeja, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 538 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 22° · 53 % · 55 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 19° · 74 % · 68 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 92 % · 61 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 92 % · 42 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Albergaria-a-Velha: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

538
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
3
fires
21
km²

How many times has Angeja burned?

Angeja has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, September 2024, with 333 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 538 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 380 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
538
cumulative ha
380
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal

Fires that entered Angeja

  1. 333 ha Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, September 2024 16% of the freguesia · 23,318 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 30 ha Oliveira de Azeméis fire, July 2022 1.4% of the freguesia · 2,747 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 175 ha Águeda fire, 2 September 2019 8.2% of the freguesia · 1,898 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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