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Wildfires in Avões

Avões, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 461 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 94% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 11° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 13° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 44 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 89 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 72 % · 66 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 94 % · 64 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 91 % · 53 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

461
hectares burned
94 %
of its area
3
fires
5
km²

How many times has Avões burned?

Avões has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Resende fire, September 2024, with 143 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 461 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 306 hectares, 63 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
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  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
461
cumulative ha
306
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 Avões

  1. 143 ha Resende fire, September 2024 29% of the freguesia · 1,783 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 22 ha Resende fire, 17 August 2017 4.5% of the freguesia · 571 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 296 ha Resende fire, 10 August 2016 61% of the freguesia · 694 ha in total · 4 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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