Wildfires in Mação
Mação, Portugal: 6 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 freguesias since 2016, burning 34,355 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sertã in 23 July 2017, with 18,265 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).
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
- 34,355ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 88%
- 392 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 18,265ha
- Sertã · 23 July 2017
- Inhabitants
- 6,402
- 5,366.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 19° · 36 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 53 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 36 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 20° · 50 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 23° · 46 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 32 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 43 % · 21 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Mação, Penhascoso e Aboboreira 3,193 inhabitants 11,685 ha · 87 %
- Envendos 804 inhabitants 9,083 ha · 99 %
- Cardigos 965 inhabitants 5,791 ha · 82 %
- Carvoeiro 519 inhabitants 4,807 ha · 98 %
- Amêndoa 387 inhabitants 1,803 ha · 48 %
- Ortiga 534 inhabitants 1,187 ha · 73 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland55 %
- Agricultural areas15 %
- Coniferous forest11 %
- Broadleaved forest8.2 %
- Other natural land4.5 %
- Mixed forest3.3 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub1.3 %
- Other land cover0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 4×Mação, Penhascoso e Aboboreira11,685 ha
- 4×Amêndoa1,803 ha
- 2×Cardigos5,791 ha
- 2×Carvoeiro4,807 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 18,265 haSertã Várzea dos Cavaleiros23 July 2017 · 6 days of 36,849 ha in total
- 9,673 haFerreira do Zêzere Nossa Senhora do PrantoAugust 2017 · 9 days of 25,305 ha in total
- 5,700 haVila de Rei CardigosJuly 2019 · 3 days of 9,924 ha in total
- 537 haMação Mação, Penhascoso e AboboreiraSeptember 2017 · 2 days
- 149 haMação AmêndoaJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 30 haAbrantes MouriscasAugust 2026 · 1 day of 306 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 30 | Abrantes 30 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 5,700 | Vila de Rei 5,700 ha |
| 2017 | 4 | 28,625 | Sertã 18,265 ha |
All fires in Mação · 6
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 30 haAbrantes MouriscasAugust 2026 · 1 day of 306 ha in total
- 5,700 haVila de Rei CardigosJuly 2019 · 3 days of 9,924 ha in total
- 537 haMação Mação, Penhascoso e AboboreiraSeptember 2017 · 2 days
- 9,673 haFerreira do Zêzere Nossa Senhora do PrantoAugust 2017 · 9 days of 25,305 ha in total
- 18,265 haSertã Várzea dos Cavaleiros23 July 2017 · 6 days of 36,849 ha in total
- 149 haMação AmêndoaJuly 2017 · 1 day
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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