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Wildfires in Cinfães

Cinfães, Portugal: 40 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 14 freguesias since 2016, burning 15,224 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cinfães in 6 August 2016, with 1,738 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 11 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
15,224ha
Since 2016
Of the region
70%
219 km²
fires
40
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 14
Largest fire
1,738ha
Cinfães · 6 August 2016
Inhabitants
17,731
858.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Low 22° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 26 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 78 % · 48 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. Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires 517 inhabitants 3,114 ha · 83 %
  2. Cinfães 3,080 inhabitants 2,532 ha · 100 %
  3. Tendais 697 inhabitants 2,190 ha · 69 %
  4. Ferreiros de Tendais 540 inhabitants 1,814 ha · 1.1×
  5. Nespereira 1,695 inhabitants 1,639 ha · 45 %
  6. São Cristóvão de Nogueira 1,639 inhabitants 1,279 ha · 71 %
  7. Oliveira do Douro 1,257 inhabitants 1,107 ha · 78 %
  8. Santiago de Piães 1,607 inhabitants 1,062 ha · 60 %
  9. Fornelos 590 inhabitants 714 ha · 71 %
  10. Moimenta 356 inhabitants 536 ha · 82 %
  11. Tarouquela 1,041 inhabitants 182 ha · 27 %
  12. Travanca 712 inhabitants 142 ha · 29 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land37 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland34 %
  • Coniferous forest10 %
  • Agricultural areas9.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.2 %
  • Mixed forest2.5 %

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
20266773 Cinfães 220 ha
202552,794 Tarouquela 950 ha
202453,385 Freigil e Miomães 1,483 ha
20233345 Tendais 123 ha
20221113 Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires 113 ha
20217926 Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires 238 ha
20202469 Ferreiros de Tendais 297 ha
20192153 Cinfães 153 ha
20181106 Nespereira 106 ha
201782,418 Tendais 888 ha
2016114,829 Cinfães 1,738 ha

All fires in Cinfães · 51

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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