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Wildfires in Fafe

Fafe, Portugal: 32 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 25 freguesias since 2016, burning 7,608 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vieira do Minho in 8 August 2016, with 1,119 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 3 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
7,608ha
Since 2016
Of the region
43%
175 km²
fires
32
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 25
Largest fire
1,119ha
Vieira do Minho · 8 August 2016
Inhabitants
44,599
170.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 16° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 81 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 22° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 22° · 48 % · 42 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. Moreira do Rei e Várzea Cova 1,656 inhabitants 2,497 ha · 89 %
  2. Monte e Queimadela 659 inhabitants 1,468 ha · 72 %
  3. Aboim, Felgueiras, Gontim e Pedraído 773 inhabitants 939 ha · 35 %
  4. União de Freguesias de Agrela e Serafão 1,208 inhabitants 663 ha · 72 %
  5. Freitas e Vila Cova 748 inhabitants 582 ha · 50 %
  6. São Gens 1,643 inhabitants 437 ha · 29 %
  7. União de Freguesias de Cepães e Fareja 2,153 inhabitants 307 ha · 42 %
  8. Quinchães 2,171 inhabitants 236 ha · 22 %
  9. Armil 687 inhabitants 135 ha · 29 %
  10. Passos 101 ha · 25 %
  11. Travassós 1,444 inhabitants 91 ha · 11 %
  12. Revelhe 788 inhabitants 86 ha · 18 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land54 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland32 %
  • Mixed forest6.7 %
  • Agricultural areas4.0 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
2026113 Refojos de Basto 13 ha
20252288 Fafe 188 ha
202462,728 Celorico de Basto 867 ha
2023136 Cabeceiras de Basto 36 ha
20226932 Aboim, Felgueiras, Gontim e Pedraído 288 ha
20212168 Moreira do Rei e Várzea Cova 146 ha
20201530 Fafe 530 ha
20181177 Fafe 177 ha
20173369 Fafe 296 ha
2016122,670 Vieira do Minho 1,119 ha

All fires in Fafe · 35

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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