Wildfires in Paredes
Paredes, Portugal: 13 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 18 freguesias since 2016, burning 3,893 hectares inside the region. The largest was Aguiar de Sousa in September 2024, with 1,544 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).
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
- 3,893ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 27%
- 144 km²
- fires
- 13
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 12
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 1,544ha
- Aguiar de Sousa · September 2024
- Inhabitants
- 84,371
- 46.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 Low 23° · 46 % · 12 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 38 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 29 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 33 % · 37 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 17° · 41 % · 53 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 16° · 37 % · 48 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 42 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 6 Low 14° · 53 % · 24 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sobreira 4,124 inhabitants 1,487 ha · 68 %
- Aguiar de Sousa 1,582 inhabitants 1,319 ha · 59 %
- Recarei 4,479 inhabitants 604 ha · 41 %
- Rebordosa 8,496 inhabitants 168 ha · 16 %
- Sobrosa 2,497 inhabitants 71 ha · 15 %
- Baltar 4,724 inhabitants 69 ha · 9.5 %
- Louredo 1,384 inhabitants 36 ha · 13 %
- Beire 2,014 inhabitants 33 ha · 10 %
- Paredes 20,591 inhabitants 32 ha · 1.5 %
- Lordelo 9,107 inhabitants 31 ha · 3.2 %
- Gandra 6,967 inhabitants 26 ha · 2.3 %
- Vandoma 2,306 inhabitants 15 ha · 2.9 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland69 %
- Broadleaved forest11 %
- Other natural land9.3 %
- Mixed forest4.3 %
- Agricultural areas4.1 %
- Artificial surfaces2.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 8×Sobreira1,487 ha
- 7×Aguiar de Sousa1,319 ha
- 3×Recarei604 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,544 haAguiar de SousaSeptember 2024 · 4 days of 4,706 ha in total
- 681 haParedes RecareiJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 360 haRecareiAugust 2016 · 6 days
- 226 haParedes RebordosaSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 195 haSobreiraAugust 2016 · 2 days of 211 ha in total
- 185 haPenafiel SobreiraJuly 2025 · 4 days of 1,705 ha in total
- 177 haAguiar de SousaJuly 2020 · 2 days
- 142 haSobreiraAugust 2022 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 866 | Paredes 681 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,544 | Aguiar de Sousa 1,544 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 142 | Sobreira 142 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 177 | Aguiar de Sousa 177 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 86 | Paredes 86 ha |
| 2016 | 7 | 1,077 | Recarei 360 ha |
All fires in Paredes · 13
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 681 haParedes RecareiJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 185 haPenafiel SobreiraJuly 2025 · 4 days of 1,705 ha in total
- 1,544 haAguiar de SousaSeptember 2024 · 4 days of 4,706 ha in total
- 142 haSobreiraAugust 2022 · 1 day
- 177 haAguiar de SousaJuly 2020 · 2 days
- 86 haParedes Lagares e FigueiraAugust 2017 · 2 days of 334 ha in total
- 117 haVandomaSeptember 2016 · 2 days
- 226 haParedes RebordosaSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 195 haSobreiraAugust 2016 · 2 days of 211 ha in total
- 139 haParedes SobrosaAugust 2016 · 1 day of 179 ha in total
- 37 haGondomar Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova8 August 2016 · 4 days of 790 ha in total
- 360 haRecareiAugust 2016 · 6 days
- 3 haGondomar União das Freguesias de Melres e Medas5 August 2016 · 3 days of 286 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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