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Wildfires in Braga

Braga, Portugal: 5 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 37 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,114 hectares inside the region. The largest was Guimarães in October 2017, with 445 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
1,114ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.8%
165 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 37
Largest fire
445ha
Guimarães · October 2017
Inhabitants
177,306
6.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 34 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 73 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 65 % · 44 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. Este (São Pedro e São Mamede) 4,067 inhabitants 259 ha · 26 %
  2. Esporões 1,713 inhabitants 200 ha · 43 %
  3. Morreira e Trandeiras 1,364 inhabitants 160 ha · 35 %
  4. Sequeira 1,741 inhabitants 103 ha · 24 %
  5. Santa Lucrécia de Algeriz e Navarra 909 inhabitants 80 ha · 13 %
  6. Crespos e Pousada 1,231 inhabitants 72 ha · 9.9 %
  7. Sobreposta 1,267 inhabitants 65 ha · 11 %
  8. Nogueiró e Tenões 5,947 inhabitants 61 ha · 14 %
  9. Espinho 36 ha · 8.1 %
  10. Pedralva 1,060 inhabitants 36 ha · 4.5 %
  11. Ferreiros e Gondizalves 9,978 inhabitants 35 ha · 8.2 %
  12. União das freguesias de Real, Dume e Semelhe 7 ha · 0.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland66 %
  • Mixed forest17 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.3 %
  • Artificial surfaces5.0 %
  • Agricultural areas3.3 %
  • Other natural land2.3 %

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
20173621 Guimarães 445 ha
20162493 Braga 348 ha

All fires in Braga · 5

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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