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Wildfires in Aveiro

Aveiro, Portugal: 5 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 10 freguesias since 2016, burning 2,666 hectares inside the region. The largest was Quiaios in October 2017, with 1,958 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
2,666ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
175 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 10
Largest fire
1,958ha
Quiaios · October 2017
Inhabitants
74,148
36.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 88 % · 17 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 92 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 85 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 92 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 57 % · 26 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. Requeixo, Nossa Senhora de Fátima e Nariz 4,383 inhabitants 1,956 ha · 61 %
  2. Eixo e Eirol 6,190 inhabitants 444 ha · 20 %
  3. Cacia 13,518 inhabitants 139 ha · 3.9 %
  4. Oliveirinha 4,675 inhabitants 99 ha · 8.1 %
  5. Esgueira 29 ha · 1.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest35 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
  • Agricultural areas19 %
  • Mixed forest14 %
  • Artificial surfaces4.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.0 %
  • Other natural land0.8 %

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
20262409 Aveiro 213 ha
20241168 Aveiro 168 ha
201722,090 Quiaios 1,958 ha

All fires in Aveiro · 5

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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