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Wildfires in Valongo do Vouga

Valongo do Vouga, Portugal: 5 fires since 2016 burned 4,784 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 78 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 91 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 81 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 16° · 95 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 18° · 97 % · 46 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 18° · 96 % · 46 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 18° · 86 % · 46 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 18° · 91 % · 63 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 Águeda: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

4,784
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
5
fires
43
km²

How many times has Valongo do Vouga burned?

Valongo do Vouga has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Vouzela fire, July 2026, with 0 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,784 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,463 hectares, 80 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,784
cumulative ha
3,463
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 Valongo do Vouga

  1. 0 ha Vouzela fire, July 2026 0.0% of the freguesia · 13,375 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,434 ha Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, September 2024 79% of the freguesia · 23,318 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 128 ha Águeda fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 3.0% of the freguesia · 211 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 55 ha Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, August 2016 1.3% of the freguesia · 1,920 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,167 ha Águeda fire, August 2016 27% of the freguesia · 7,926 ha in total · 6 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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