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Wildfires in Melgaço

Melgaço, Portugal: 10 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 13 freguesias since 2016, burning 3,948 hectares inside the region. The largest was Melgaço in October 2017, with 983 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 4 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed); one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
3,948ha
Since 2016
Of the region
17%
230 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
freguesias with fire
11
of 13
Largest fire
983ha
Melgaço · October 2017
Inhabitants
6,062
651.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Low 12° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 12° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 13° · 37 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 62 % · 63 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 87 % · 81 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 12° · 97 % · 79 km/h

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Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The freguesias that burned most

  1. Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro 503 inhabitants 1,309 ha · 12 %
  2. São Paio 561 ha · 56 %
  3. União das Freguesias de Vila e Roussas 2,300 inhabitants 536 ha · 47 %
  4. Gave 180 inhabitants 523 ha · 28 %
  5. Parada do Monte e Cubalhão 477 inhabitants 226 ha · 7.6 %
  6. Cristoval 422 inhabitants 176 ha · 32 %
  7. Penso 445 inhabitants 151 ha · 17 %
  8. União das Freguesias de Chaviães e Paços 559 inhabitants 151 ha · 18 %
  9. Fiães 112 ha · 9.8 %
  10. Cousso 239 inhabitants 109 ha · 15 %
  11. Paderne 94 ha · 7.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land71 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.1 %
  • Mixed forest2.4 %
  • Agricultural areas1.7 %
  • Coniferous forest1.0 %

Freguesias that burn again and again

Freguesias 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
20241351 Melgaço 351 ha
20233319 Melgaço 189 ha
20202303 Fiães 200 ha
201721,366 Melgaço 983 ha
201621,609 Arcos de Valdevez 890 ha

All fires in Melgaço · 15

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 freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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