Wildfires in Miranda do Douro
Miranda do Douro, Portugal: 3 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 13 freguesias since 2016, burning 2,068 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vimioso in August 2024, with 1,516 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).
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
- 2,068ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.2%
- 496 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 1,516ha
- Vimioso · August 2024
- Inhabitants
- 5,906
- 350.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 High 18° · 29 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 38 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 11° · 40 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 13° · 33 % · 20 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 15° · 42 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 16° · 79 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 15° · 85 % · 36 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 17° · 63 % · 59 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- São Martinho de Angueira 239 inhabitants 1,474 ha · 40 %
- Picote 230 inhabitants 306 ha · 16 %
- Miranda do Douro 2,064 inhabitants 164 ha · 4.6 %
- Ifanes e Paradela 233 inhabitants 82 ha · 1.8 %
- Constantim e Cicouro 153 inhabitants 42 ha · 1.2 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas51 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland40 %
- Other natural land4.7 %
- Broadleaved forest2.5 %
- Artificial surfaces0.9 %
- Mixed forest0.8 %
Largest recorded fires
- 1,516 haVimioso Vale de Frades e AvelanosoAugust 2024 · 2 days of 2,013 ha in total
- 307 haMiranda do Douro PicoteAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 246 haMiranda do DouroJune 2017 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 1,516 | Vimioso 1,516 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 553 | Miranda do Douro 306 ha |
All fires in Miranda do Douro · 3
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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