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Wildfires in Funchal

Funchal, Portugal: one fire with a page has entered 7 of its 11 freguesias since 2016, burning 2,139 hectares inside the region. The largest was São Roque in August 2016, with 2,139 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
2,139ha
Since 2016
Of the region
48%
45 km²
fires
1
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 11
Largest fire
2,139ha
São Roque · August 2016
Inhabitants
102,920
20.8 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 Very low 20° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 89 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 82 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 84 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 75 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 79 % · 35 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. Monte 5,794 inhabitants 1,362 ha · 73 %
  2. São Roque 8,349 inhabitants 468 ha · 62 %
  3. Santa Maria Maior 11,770 inhabitants 149 ha · 31 %
  4. Santo António 25,948 inhabitants 107 ha · 4.8 %
  5. Santa Luzia 5,490 inhabitants 32 ha · 23 %
  6. São Gonçalo 5,806 inhabitants 16 ha · 2.3 %
  7. Imaculado Coração de Maria 5,627 inhabitants 4 ha · 2.9 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land48 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland34 %
  • Artificial surfaces9.3 %
  • Broadleaved forest5.8 %
  • Mixed forest2.2 %
  • Agricultural areas1.2 %

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
201612,139 São Roque 2,139 ha

All fires in Funchal · 1

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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