Wildfires in Ourém
Ourém, Portugal: 11 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 13 freguesias since 2016, burning 7,168 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ourém in 19 August 2022, with 2,289 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).
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
- 7,168ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 24%
- 304 km²
- fires
- 11
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 9
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 2,289ha
- Ourém · 19 August 2022
- Inhabitants
- 42,708
- 167.8 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 26° · 27 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 2 High 24° · 17 % · 18 km/h
- Tue 3 High 21° · 21 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 4 High 18° · 28 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 High 18° · 30 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 19° · 36 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 16° · 85 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 22° · 51 % · 48 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Freixianda, Ribeira do Fárrio e Formigais 3,226 inhabitants 2,914 ha · 45 %
- Urqueira 1,401 inhabitants 1,712 ha · 55 %
- União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos 1,877 inhabitants 824 ha · 19 %
- União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival 1,995 inhabitants 636 ha · 21 %
- Espite 986 inhabitants 519 ha · 26 %
- União das Freguesias de Matas e Cercal 944 inhabitants 397 ha · 19 %
- Atouguia 2,087 inhabitants 89 ha · 4.5 %
- Caxarias 2,136 inhabitants 77 ha · 4.3 %
- Seiça 1,879 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland28 %
- Agricultural areas23 %
- Broadleaved forest17 %
- Mixed forest15 %
- Coniferous forest13 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub1.3 %
- Artificial surfaces1.2 %
- Other natural land0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×União das Freguesias de Matas e Cercal397 ha
- 4×União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival636 ha
- 3×Freixianda, Ribeira do Fárrio e Formigais2,914 ha
- 3×União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos824 ha
- 3×Espite519 ha
- 2×Urqueira1,712 ha
- 2×Caxarias77 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,289 haOurém União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival19 August 2022 · 4 days
- 1,647 haAnsião Freixianda, Ribeira do Fárrio e FormigaisJuly 2022 · 8 days of 8,311 ha in total
- 1,232 haPombal AbiulOctober 2017 · 4 days of 1,547 ha in total
- 470 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos BernardosJuly 2022 · 1 day
- 324 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos24 August 2023 · 1 day
- 314 haLeiria Colmeias e MemóriaJuly 2022 · 4 days of 3,691 ha in total
- 245 haOurém União das Freguesias de Matas e Cercal7 August 2023 · 1 day
- 229 haOurém União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival1 August 2022 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Ourém · 11
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 324 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos24 August 2023 · 1 day
- 245 haOurém União das Freguesias de Matas e Cercal7 August 2023 · 1 day
- 221 haLeiria Santa Catarina da Serra e Chainça5 August 2023 · 2 days of 456 ha in total
- 68 haLeiria Caranguejeira4 August 2023 · 7 days of 324 ha in total
- 2,289 haOurém União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival19 August 2022 · 4 days
- 129 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos15 August 2022 · 1 day of 164 ha in total
- 229 haOurém União das Freguesias de Gondemaria e Olival1 August 2022 · 1 day
- 470 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos BernardosJuly 2022 · 1 day
- 314 haLeiria Colmeias e MemóriaJuly 2022 · 4 days of 3,691 ha in total
- 1,647 haAnsião Freixianda, Ribeira do Fárrio e FormigaisJuly 2022 · 8 days of 8,311 ha in total
- 1,232 haPombal AbiulOctober 2017 · 4 days of 1,547 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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