Wildfires in Belmonte
Belmonte, Portugal: 4 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,011 hectares inside the region. The largest was Guarda in 7 July 2022, with 540 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).
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
- 1,011ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 8.7%
- 117 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 4
- Largest fire
- 540ha
- Guarda · 7 July 2022
- Inhabitants
- 4,101
- 246.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 High 21° · 28 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 3 High 17° · 30 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 29 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 30 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 16° · 38 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 15° · 75 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 14° · 81 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 15° · 93 % · 57 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Maçainhas 312 inhabitants 576 ha · 32 %
- União das Freguesias de Belmonte e Colmeal da Torre 3,183 inhabitants 435 ha · 11 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland34 %
- Other natural land28 %
- Agricultural areas16 %
- Coniferous forest12 %
- Mixed forest6.5 %
- Broadleaved forest3.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Maçainhas576 ha
- 2×União das Freguesias de Belmonte e Colmeal da Torre435 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 540 haGuarda União das Freguesias de Belmonte e Colmeal da Torre7 July 2022 · 4 days of 749 ha in total
- 250 haSerra da Estrela SameiroAugust 2022 · 18 days of 25,260 ha in total
- 217 haGuarda MaçainhasAugust 2018 · 3 days of 374 ha in total
- 3 haSabugal BendadaJuly 2026 · 2 days of 498 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Belmonte · 4
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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