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PT · Portugal · Figueiró dos Vinhos · 721 inhabitants

Wildfires in Arega

Arega, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,053 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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. Tue 3 High 21° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 18° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 17° · 45 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 57 % · 49 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 82 % · 62 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 90 % · 61 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.

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,053
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
2
fires
29
km²

How many times has Arega burned?

Arega has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Ferreira do Zêzere fire, August 2017, with 737 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,053
cumulative ha
12 Aug 2017
most recent

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 Arega

  1. 737 ha Ferreira do Zêzere fire, August 2017 26% of the freguesia · 25,305 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 316 ha Pedrógão Grande fire, June 2017 11% of the freguesia · 46,769 ha in total · 10 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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