Wildfires in Alter do Chão
Alter do Chão, Portugal: one fire with a page has entered 2 of its 4 freguesias since 2016, burning 682 hectares inside the region. The largest was Alter do Chão in August 2016, with 682 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 682ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.8%
- 375 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- freguesias with fire
- 2
- of 4
- Largest fire
- 682ha
- Alter do Chão · August 2016
- Inhabitants
- 2,662
- 256.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 High 19° · 29 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 18° · 34 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 6 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 7 Moderate 22° · 52 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 22° · 51 % · 50 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 21° · 74 % · 58 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 21° · 69 % · 57 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 20° · 73 % · 39 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The freguesias that burned most
- Seda 355 inhabitants 670 ha · 5.9 %
- Chancelaria 12 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas82 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland15 %
- Other land cover3.2 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 682 | Alter do Chão 682 ha |
All fires in Alter do Chão · 1
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia (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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