Wildfires in Boticas
Boticas, Portugal: 16 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 10 freguesias since 2016, burning 5,398 hectares inside the region. The largest was Boticas in September 2016, with 1,895 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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
- 5,398ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 15%
- 355 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 1,895ha
- Boticas · September 2016
- Inhabitants
- 4,398
- 1,227.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Moderate 11° · 44 % · 38 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 10° · 41 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 12° · 39 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 11° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 12° · 90 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 12° · 91 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 16° · 80 % · 57 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 12° · 96 % · 64 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ardãos e Bobadela 463 inhabitants 1,901 ha · 51 %
- Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo 389 inhabitants 1,009 ha · 18 %
- Codessoso, Curros e Fiães do Tâmega 257 inhabitants 651 ha · 19 %
- Beça 778 inhabitants 575 ha · 19 %
- Boticas e Granja 1,540 inhabitants 480 ha · 21 %
- Pinho 425 ha · 19 %
- Dornelas 279 ha · 7.6 %
- Sapiãos 397 inhabitants 38 ha · 1.8 %
- Vilar e Viveiro 383 inhabitants 35 ha · 1.1 %
- Covas do Barroso 191 inhabitants 5 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land59 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland24 %
- Agricultural areas15 %
- Coniferous forest1.0 %
- Mixed forest0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 8×Ardãos e Bobadela1,901 ha
- 5×Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo1,009 ha
- 2×Codessoso, Curros e Fiães do Tâmega651 ha
- 2×Dornelas279 ha
- 2×Sapiãos38 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,895 haBoticas Codessoso, Curros e Fiães do TâmegaSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 804 haBoticas Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo4 October 2017 · 8 days
- 740 haArdãos e BobadelaAugust 2026 · 5 days of 1,971 ha in total
- 407 haBoticas Ardãos e BobadelaAugust 2026 · 4 days of 430 ha in total
- 357 haSarraquinhosApril 2026 · 5 days of 566 ha in total
- 272 haBoticas Ardãos e BobadelaAugust 2017 · 2 days of 447 ha in total
- 246 haBoticas Alturas do Barroso e CerdedoAugust 2016 · 4 days
- 237 haRibeira de Pena CanedoJuly 2022 · 2 days of 284 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 1,733 | Ardãos e Bobadela 740 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 251 | Ribeira de Pena 237 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 171 | Boticas 95 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 25 | Venda Nova e Pondras 25 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 1,076 | Boticas 804 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 2,141 | Boticas 1,895 ha |
All fires in Boticas · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 740 haArdãos e BobadelaAugust 2026 · 5 days of 1,971 ha in total
- 407 haBoticas Ardãos e BobadelaAugust 2026 · 4 days of 430 ha in total
- 35 haChaves RedondeloJuly 2026 · 2 days of 1,118 ha in total
- 357 haSarraquinhosApril 2026 · 5 days of 566 ha in total
- 33 haBoticas Vilar de Perdizes e MeixideMarch 2026 · 2 days of 145 ha in total
- 157 haAlturas do Barroso e CerdedoMarch 2026 · 14 days
- 4 haCervosMarch 2026 · 14 days of 229 ha in total
- 14 haMontalegre Sarraquinhos28 August 2022 · 3 days of 270 ha in total
- 237 haRibeira de Pena CanedoJuly 2022 · 2 days of 284 ha in total
- 76 haMontalegre Ardãos e BobadelaOctober 2020 · 1 day of 144 ha in total
- 95 haBoticas Alturas do Barroso e CerdedoSeptember 2020 · 1 day
- 25 haVenda Nova e PondrasMarch 2019 · 3 days of 169 ha in total
- 804 haBoticas Alturas do Barroso e Cerdedo4 October 2017 · 8 days
- 272 haBoticas Ardãos e BobadelaAugust 2017 · 2 days of 447 ha in total
- 1,895 haBoticas Codessoso, Curros e Fiães do TâmegaSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 246 haBoticas Alturas do Barroso e CerdedoAugust 2016 · 4 days
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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