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Wildfires in Arganil

Arganil, Portugal: 9 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 17 freguesias since 2016, burning 41,635 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pombeiro da Beira in October 2017, with 23,929 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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
41,635ha
Since 2016
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
1.3×
324 km²
fires
9
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 17
Largest fire
23,929ha
Pombeiro da Beira · October 2017
Inhabitants
11,908
3,496.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 73 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 70 % · 66 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 87 % · 76 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 86 % · 63 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. Pomares 431 inhabitants 6,279 ha · 2.0×
  2. Piódão 120 inhabitants 4,622 ha · 1.3×
  3. União das Freguesias de Cepos e Teixeira 198 inhabitants 4,015 ha · 1.2×
  4. Uni3O Das Freguesias De S 3,793 ha · 100 %
  5. Benfeita 372 inhabitants 3,545 ha · 1.6×
  6. União das freguesias de Cerdeira e Moura da Serra 3,526 ha · 1.9×
  7. São Martinho da Cortiça 1,188 inhabitants 3,172 ha · 1.0×
  8. Vila Cova de Alva e Anseriz 535 inhabitants 2,821 ha · 1.7×
  9. Pombeiro da Beira 903 inhabitants 2,504 ha · 78 %
  10. Côja e Barril de Alva 1,563 inhabitants 2,257 ha · 93 %
  11. Friúmes e Paradela 813 inhabitants 2,100 ha · 95 %
  12. Folques 342 inhabitants 955 ha · 52 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland31 %
  • Other natural land24 %
  • Agricultural areas15 %
  • Mixed forest12 %
  • Coniferous forest12 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.2 %
  • Other land cover1.0 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
2026129 Vila Nova de Poiares 29 ha
2025111,692 Arganil 11,692 ha
20241314 Arganil 314 ha
2017629,600 Pombeiro da Beira 23,929 ha

All fires in Arganil · 9

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).

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