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PT · Portugal · Vila Nova de Poiares · 174 inhabitants

Wildfires in Lavegadas

Lavegadas, Portugal: 2 fires since 2017 burned 1,468 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.3 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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. Sat 7 Low 22° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 21° · 55 % · 53 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 20° · 76 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 95 % · 58 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 79 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 16° · 95 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 96 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 17° · 84 % · 37 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 Vila Nova de Poiares: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,468
hectares burned
1.3×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
11
km²

How many times has Lavegadas burned?

Lavegadas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Vila Nova de Poiares fire, September 2026, with 331 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,468 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,137 hectares, 100 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,468
cumulative ha
1,137
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 Lavegadas

  1. 331 ha Vila Nova de Poiares fire, September 2026 where it started 29% of the freguesia · 562 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,137 ha Pombeiro da Beira fire, October 2017 100% of the freguesia · 132,830 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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