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PT · Portugal · Baião · 1,013 inhabitants

Wildfires in Gestaçô

Gestaçô, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 794 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sat 24 Low 16° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 17° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 22° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 18° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 19° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 20° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 23° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 48 % · 29 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 municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

794
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
4
fires
14
km²

How many times has Gestaçô burned?

Gestaçô has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Baião fire, July 2025, with 72 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 794 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 510 hectares, 36 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
794
cumulative ha
510
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 Gestaçô

  1. 72 ha Baião fire, July 2025 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 227 ha União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte fire, September 2024 16% of the municipality · 6,845 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 342 ha Baião fire, September 2019 24% of the municipality · 808 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 153 ha Baião fire, 10 August 2016 where it started 11% of the municipality · 153 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

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

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