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Wildfires in Amarante

Amarante, Portugal: 17 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 26 freguesias since 2016, burning 6,242 hectares inside the region. The largest was União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte in September 2024, with 2,250 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
6,242ha
Since 2016
Of the region
26%
242 km²
fires
17
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 26
Largest fire
2,250ha
União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte · September 2024
Inhabitants
48,657
128.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 16° · 46 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 16° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 17° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 21° · 46 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 21° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 20° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 22° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 22° · 45 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bustelo, Carneiro e Carvalho de Rei 827 inhabitants 1,956 ha · 83 %
  2. Gouveia (São Simão) 577 inhabitants 1,158 ha · 92 %
  3. Candemil 586 inhabitants 576 ha · 48 %
  4. Vila Garcia, Aboim e Chapa 1,663 inhabitants 476 ha · 39 %
  5. Aboadela, Sanche e Várzea 1,447 inhabitants 439 ha · 14 %
  6. Rebordelo 267 inhabitants 346 ha · 22 %
  7. Mancelos 2,829 inhabitants 249 ha · 21 %
  8. Fridão 664 inhabitants 239 ha · 31 %
  9. Telões 3,941 inhabitants 238 ha · 16 %
  10. Figueiró (Santiago e Santa Cristina) 3,634 inhabitants 152 ha · 18 %
  11. Gondar 1,536 inhabitants 131 ha · 14 %
  12. Ansiães 516 inhabitants 83 ha · 3.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland41 %
  • Other natural land37 %
  • Agricultural areas8.6 %
  • Mixed forest8.1 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20252480 Celorico de Basto 480 ha
202443,411 União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte 2,250 ha
202231,042 Baião 884 ha
20201139 Gouveia (São Simão) 139 ha
2019152 Baião 52 ha
20173645 Aboadela, Sanche e Várzea 311 ha
20163474 Baião 311 ha

All fires in Amarante · 17

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 municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia (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).