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Wildfires in Baião

Baião, Portugal: 23 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 14 freguesias since 2016, burning 10,691 hectares inside the region. The largest was União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte in September 2024, with 3,137 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
10,691ha
Since 2016
Of the region
64%
167 km²
fires
23
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 14
Largest fire
3,137ha
União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte · September 2024
Inhabitants
16,501
647.9 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 15° · 41 % · 54 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 37 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 78 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 76 % · 50 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 78 % · 70 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 94 % · 55 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. Teixeira e Teixeiró 723 inhabitants 2,398 ha · 91 %
  2. União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte 3,686 inhabitants 1,953 ha · 61 %
  3. Ancede e Ribadouro 2,335 inhabitants 1,251 ha · 85 %
  4. Loivos Do Monte 990 ha · 1.1×
  5. Gove 1,742 inhabitants 862 ha · 77 %
  6. Gestaçô 1,013 inhabitants 794 ha · 55 %
  7. Viariz 396 inhabitants 786 ha · 1.3×
  8. Baião (Santa Leocádia) e Mesquinhata 731 inhabitants 569 ha · 66 %
  9. Grilo 472 inhabitants 542 ha · 92 %
  10. Valadares 377 ha · 38 %
  11. Santa Cruz do Douro e São Tomé de Covelas 1,654 inhabitants 254 ha · 16 %
  12. Santa Marinha do Zêzere 2,469 inhabitants 30 ha · 2.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land50 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland28 %
  • Agricultural areas12 %
  • Mixed forest6.2 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.5 %

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
202614 Mesão Frio (Santo André) 4 ha
20251102 Baião 102 ha
202445,778 União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte 3,137 ha
20231351 Baião 351 ha
202241,322 Baião 853 ha
20211114 Teixeira e Teixeiró 114 ha
20202221 Baião 168 ha
20192785 Baião 757 ha
20181283 Grilo 283 ha
2017184 União das Freguesias de Campelo e Ovil e Loivos do Monte 84 ha
201661,761 Baião 625 ha

All fires in Baião · 24

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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