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Wildfires in Arouca

Arouca, Portugal: 10 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 16 freguesias since 2016, burning 29,927 hectares inside the region. The largest was Arouca in August 2016, with 15,474 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 3 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
29,927ha
Since 2016
Of the region
89%
335 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 16
Largest fire
15,474ha
Arouca · August 2016
Inhabitants
15,109
1,980.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 22° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 21° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 22° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 22° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 32 % · 35 km/h

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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. Covelo de Paivó e Janarde 171 inhabitants 7,953 ha · 1.8×
  2. Canelas e Espiunca 1,065 inhabitants 4,246 ha · 1.2×
  3. Alvarenga 1,057 inhabitants 3,878 ha · 100 %
  4. Cabreiros e Albergaria da Serra 185 inhabitants 3,711 ha · 1.2×
  5. Santa Eulália 2,573 ha · 1.1×
  6. Moldes 1,126 inhabitants 2,414 ha · 86 %
  7. São Miguel do Mato 1,120 ha · 65 %
  8. Tropeço 1,086 inhabitants 1,003 ha · 56 %
  9. Mansores 1,100 inhabitants 770 ha · 54 %
  10. Escariz 733 ha · 41 %
  11. Fermedo 636 ha · 58 %
  12. União das Freguesias de Arouca e Burgo 5,124 inhabitants 477 ha · 31 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland45 %
  • Other natural land28 %
  • Coniferous forest7.8 %
  • Agricultural areas7.6 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.2 %
  • Mixed forest4.3 %

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
202611,477 Arouca 1,477 ha
202523,637 Arouca 3,635 ha
202415,175 Castro Daire 5,175 ha
2023186 Arouca 86 ha
20212220 Arouca 165 ha
20201648 Arouca 648 ha
201733,597 Chave 3,210 ha
2016215,579 Arouca 15,474 ha

All fires in Arouca · 13

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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