Wildfires in Monchique
Monchique, Portugal: 5 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 freguesias since 2016, burning 20,328 hectares inside the region. The largest was Monchique in August 2018, with 17,187 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
- 20,328ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 45%
- 451 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 17,187ha
- Monchique · August 2018
- Inhabitants
- 5,462
- 3,721.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 58 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 20 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 20° · 48 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 6 Moderate 20° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Moderate 21° · 72 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 8 Moderate 21° · 77 % · 48 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Monchique 4,373 inhabitants 11,171 ha · 70 %
- Alferce 391 inhabitants 7,588 ha · 79 %
- Marmelete 698 inhabitants 1,570 ha · 11 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland37 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub27 %
- Broadleaved forest25 %
- Agricultural areas9.3 %
- Mixed forest1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 17,187 haMonchiqueAugust 2018 · 8 days of 27,635 ha in total
- 2,113 haMonchiqueSeptember 2016 · 7 days of 4,587 ha in total
- 636 haMonchique Mexilhoeira GrandeJuly 2021 · 2 days of 2,121 ha in total
- 389 haOdemira São TeotónioAugust 2023 · 9 days of 8,145 ha in total
- 4 haOdemira SaboiaAugust 2021 · 2 days of 940 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Monchique · 5
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 389 haOdemira São TeotónioAugust 2023 · 9 days of 8,145 ha in total
- 4 haOdemira SaboiaAugust 2021 · 2 days of 940 ha in total
- 636 haMonchique Mexilhoeira GrandeJuly 2021 · 2 days of 2,121 ha in total
- 17,187 haMonchiqueAugust 2018 · 8 days of 27,635 ha in total
- 2,113 haMonchiqueSeptember 2016 · 7 days of 4,587 ha in total
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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