Wildfires in Ovar
Ovar, Portugal: one fire with a page has entered 2 of its 5 freguesias since 2016, burning 170 hectares inside the region. The largest was União das Freguesias de São Miguel de Souto e Mosteirô in September 2019, with 170 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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
- 170ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.4%
- 122 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 170ha
- União das Freguesias de São Miguel de Souto e Mosteirô · September 2019
- Inhabitants
- 27,848
- 6.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 18° · 52 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 17° · 50 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 15° · 50 % · 32 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 14° · 65 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 15° · 69 % · 17 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 18° · 78 % · 45 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 19° · 74 % · 47 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 17° · 87 % · 57 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- União das Freguesias de Ovar, São João, Arada e São Vicente de Pereira Jusã 2,316 inhabitants 118 ha · 1.4 %
- Válega 6,477 inhabitants 53 ha · 1.9 %
What burns in the region
- Mixed forest99 %
- Agricultural areas1.2 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 170 | União das Freguesias de São Miguel de Souto e Mosteirô 170 ha |
All fires in Ovar · 1
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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