Wildfires in Murça
Murça, Portugal: 10 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 freguesias since 2016, burning 5,705 hectares inside the region. The largest was Murça in July 2022, with 4,111 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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
- 5,705ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 27%
- 210 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 4,111ha
- Murça · July 2022
- Inhabitants
- 4,424
- 1,289.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 14° · 44 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 17° · 33 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 16° · 68 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 19° · 50 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 19° · 48 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 17° · 50 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 18° · 50 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 20° · 48 % · 16 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Jou 535 inhabitants 2,075 ha · 56 %
- Valongo de Milhais 265 inhabitants 1,410 ha · 63 %
- União das Freguesias de Carva e Vilares 432 inhabitants 1,060 ha · 36 %
- Candedo 465 ha · 16 %
- Fiolhoso 416 inhabitants 410 ha · 25 %
- Murça 1,964 inhabitants 172 ha · 12 %
- Noura e Palheiros 812 inhabitants 114 ha · 2.7 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land42 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland29 %
- Agricultural areas25 %
- Coniferous forest2.7 %
- Artificial surfaces1.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×União das Freguesias de Carva e Vilares1,060 ha
- 4×Fiolhoso410 ha
- 2×Jou2,075 ha
- 2×Valongo de Milhais1,410 ha
- 2×Candedo465 ha
- 2×Murça172 ha
- 2×Noura e Palheiros114 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,111 haMurça TresminasJuly 2022 · 5 days of 7,641 ha in total
- 487 haMurça Vila VerdeSeptember 2025 · 3 days of 1,179 ha in total
- 427 haAlijó Vila ChãJuly 2017 · 3 days of 5,597 ha in total
- 220 haAlijó FiolhosoJuly 2019 · 2 days of 685 ha in total
- 139 haMurça Noura e PalheirosJune 2026 · 1 day
- 137 haValongo de MilhaisJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 97 haMurça União das Freguesias de Carva e VilaresMay 2022 · 2 days of 240 ha in total
- 60 haUnião das Freguesias de Carva e VilaresOctober 2016 · 1 day of 124 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Murça · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 27 haVila Pouca de Aguiar Alfarela de JalesAugust 2026 · 2 days of 153 ha in total
- 139 haMurça Noura e PalheirosJune 2026 · 1 day
- 487 haMurça Vila VerdeSeptember 2025 · 3 days of 1,179 ha in total
- 0 haAlijó Vila VerdeJuly 2022 · 2 days of 188 ha in total
- 4,111 haMurça TresminasJuly 2022 · 5 days of 7,641 ha in total
- 97 haMurça União das Freguesias de Carva e VilaresMay 2022 · 2 days of 240 ha in total
- 220 haAlijó FiolhosoJuly 2019 · 2 days of 685 ha in total
- 137 haValongo de MilhaisJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 427 haAlijó Vila ChãJuly 2017 · 3 days of 5,597 ha in total
- 60 haUnião das Freguesias de Carva e VilaresOctober 2016 · 1 day of 124 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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