Wildfires in Calheta
Calheta, Portugal: 4 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 8 freguesias since 2016, burning 7,156 hectares inside the region. The largest was Fajã da Ovelha in October 2023, with 3,821 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 7,156ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 84%
- 85 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 3,821ha
- Fajã da Ovelha · October 2023
- Inhabitants
- 7,916
- 904.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very low 22° · 69 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 21° · 85 % · 44 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 20° · 82 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 20° · 76 % · 17 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 76 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 21° · 73 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 22° · 78 % · 43 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 21° · 90 % · 53 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Ponta do Pargo 803 inhabitants 3,114 ha · 1.3×
- Fajã da Ovelha 812 inhabitants 1,630 ha · 74 %
- Arco da Calheta 3,188 inhabitants 931 ha · 63 %
- Prazeres 685 inhabitants 684 ha · 68 %
- Calheta 444 ha · 19 %
- Estreito da Calheta 1,578 inhabitants 331 ha · 23 %
- Paul do Mar 635 inhabitants 22 ha · 16 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land32 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland21 %
- Agricultural areas18 %
- Coniferous forest13 %
- Mixed forest9.8 %
- Broadleaved forest2.9 %
- Artificial surfaces2.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Ponta do Pargo3,114 ha
- 2×Fajã da Ovelha1,630 ha
- 2×Arco da Calheta931 ha
- 2×Prazeres684 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,821 haFajã da OvelhaOctober 2023 · 3 days of 4,844 ha in total
- 1,893 haCanhasAugust 2016 · 6 days of 3,264 ha in total
- 1,089 haPonta do PargoFebruary 2020 · 6 days
- 353 haArco da CalhetaOctober 2023 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 4,175 | Fajã da Ovelha 3,821 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,089 | Ponta do Pargo 1,089 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,893 | Canhas 1,893 ha |
All fires in Calheta · 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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