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Wildfires in Barcelos

Barcelos, Portugal: 2 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 59 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,965 hectares inside the region. The largest was Barcelos in August 2016, with 1,867 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
1,965ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.7%
346 km²
fires
2
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 59
Largest fire
1,867ha
Barcelos · August 2016
Inhabitants
74,868
26.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Low 22° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 77 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 61 % · 15 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 24° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 40 % · 25 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Vila Cova e Feitos 2,449 inhabitants 734 ha · 47 %
  2. Tamel (Santa Leocádia) e Vilar do Monte 1,269 inhabitants 535 ha · 48 %
  3. Palme 1,045 inhabitants 495 ha · 60 %
  4. Viatodos, Grimancelos, Minhotães e Monte de Fralães 3,744 inhabitants 98 ha · 7.8 %
  5. Aldreu 795 inhabitants 52 ha · 11 %
  6. Creixomil e Mariz 1,112 inhabitants 34 ha · 4.8 %
  7. Fragoso 2,070 inhabitants 8 ha · 0.6 %
  8. Perelhal 1,700 inhabitants 7 ha · 1.1 %
  9. Carapeços 2,168 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland86 %
  • Mixed forest7.0 %
  • Agricultural areas5.4 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.1 %

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026198 Barcelos 98 ha
201611,867 Barcelos 1,867 ha

All fires in Barcelos · 2

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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