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Wildfires in Proença-a-Nova

Proença-a-Nova, Portugal: 9 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 freguesias since 2016, burning 19,476 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sertã in 23 July 2017, with 7,629 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: 19,476ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 57%; 340 km²
fires: 9; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 4; of 4
Largest fire: 7,629ha; Sertã · 23 July 2017
Inhabitants: 6,545; 2,975.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 36 % · 28 km/h
Tue 27 Moderate 20° · 51 % · 35 km/h
Wed 28 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 23 km/h
Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 21 km/h
Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 28 % · 16 km/h
Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 25 km/h
Sun 1 Moderate 21° · 48 % · 45 km/h
Mon 2 Moderate 22° · 42 % · 41 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Proença a Nova e Peral 4,498 inhabitants 8,847 ha · 52 %
União das freguesias de Sobreira Formosa e Alvito da Beira 6,363 ha · 53 %
Montes da Senhora 1,641 inhabitants 2,612 ha · 71 %
São Pedro do Esteval 406 inhabitants 1,654 ha · 24 %

What burns in the region

Scrub and transitional woodland56 %
Coniferous forest17 %
Agricultural areas14 %
Broadleaved forest5.7 %
Mixed forest4.0 %
Other natural land2.4 %
Sclerophyllous scrub1.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

6×Proença a Nova e Peral8,847 ha
6×União das freguesias de Sobreira Formosa e Alvito da Beira6,363 ha
2×Montes da Senhora2,612 ha
2×São Pedro do Esteval1,654 ha

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
2026	3	1,357	Proença-a-Nova 1,010 ha
2023	1	5,437	Castelo Branco 5,437 ha
2020	2	3,565	Proença-a-Nova 3,027 ha
2017	2	8,023	Sertã 7,629 ha
2016	1	1,094	Proença-a-Nova 1,094 ha

All fires in Proença-a-Nova · 9

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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