Wildfires in Avis
Avis, Portugal: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 6 freguesias since 2016, burning 396 hectares inside the region. The largest was Avis in July 2020, with 381 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
- 396ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 605 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 381ha
- Avis · July 2020
- Inhabitants
- 3,812
- 103.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Moderate 23° · 53 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 31 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 48 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 High 27° · 25 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 High 27° · 26 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 High 27° · 24 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 1 High 27° · 27 % · 21 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Aldeia Velha 214 inhabitants 381 ha · 3.0 %
- Alcórrego e Maranhão 413 inhabitants 10 ha · 0.1 %
- Benavila e Valongo 878 inhabitants 5 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas56 %
- Broadleaved forest33 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland8.6 %
- Other land cover1.5 %
- Coniferous forest1.0 %
Largest recorded fires
- 381 haAvis Aldeia VelhaJuly 2020 · 1 day of 732 ha in total
- 10 haAvis Casa BrancaJuly 2025 · 1 day of 121 ha in total
- 5 haAlter do Chão SedaAugust 2016 · 1 day of 724 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 10 | Avis 10 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 381 | Avis 381 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 5 | Alter do Chão 5 ha |
All fires in Avis · 3
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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