Wildfires in Sever do Vouga
Sever do Vouga, Portugal: 6 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 freguesias since 2016, burning 6,723 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pessegueiro do Vouga in September 2024, with 4,775 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).
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
- 6,723ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 48%
- 141 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 4,775ha
- Pessegueiro do Vouga · September 2024
- Inhabitants
- 10,088
- 666.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Very low 21° · 68 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 59 % · 16 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 21° · 63 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 23° · 42 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 45 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 19° · 34 % · 52 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 17° · 34 % · 55 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 18° · 41 % · 23 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Talhadas 1,126 inhabitants 2,004 ha · 70 %
- União das Freguesias de Cedrim e Paradela 720 inhabitants 1,586 ha · 87 %
- Pessegueiro do Vouga 1,715 inhabitants 1,449 ha · 91 %
- Sever do Vouga 2,715 inhabitants 789 ha · 68 %
- União das Freguesias de Silva Escura e Dornelas 1,592 inhabitants 787 ha · 32 %
- Rocas do Vouga 1,508 inhabitants 107 ha · 7.2 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland38 %
- Broadleaved forest29 %
- Mixed forest16 %
- Agricultural areas7.5 %
- Coniferous forest5.7 %
- Other natural land2.6 %
- Artificial surfaces1.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Talhadas2,004 ha
- 3×União das Freguesias de Cedrim e Paradela1,586 ha
- 3×Pessegueiro do Vouga1,449 ha
- 2×União das Freguesias de Silva Escura e Dornelas787 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,775 haPessegueiro do VougaSeptember 2024 · 7 days of 23,318 ha in total
- 1,230 haOliveira de Frades Arcozelo das MaiasSeptember 2020 · 6 days of 2,149 ha in total
- 541 haPessegueiro do VougaAugust 2016 · 5 days of 1,920 ha in total
- 110 haSever do Vouga TalhadasJuly 2022 · 2 days of 211 ha in total
- 60 haSão Pedro de CastelõesAugust 2016 · 3 days of 304 ha in total
- 7 haVouzela Cambra e Carvalhal de VermilhasJuly 2026 · 7 days of 13,375 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 7 | Vouzela 7 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 4,775 | Pessegueiro do Vouga 4,775 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 110 | Sever do Vouga 110 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,230 | Oliveira de Frades 1,230 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 601 | Pessegueiro do Vouga 541 ha |
All fires in Sever do Vouga · 6
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 7 haVouzela Cambra e Carvalhal de VermilhasJuly 2026 · 7 days of 13,375 ha in total
- 4,775 haPessegueiro do VougaSeptember 2024 · 7 days of 23,318 ha in total
- 110 haSever do Vouga TalhadasJuly 2022 · 2 days of 211 ha in total
- 1,230 haOliveira de Frades Arcozelo das MaiasSeptember 2020 · 6 days of 2,149 ha in total
- 60 haSão Pedro de CastelõesAugust 2016 · 3 days of 304 ha in total
- 541 haPessegueiro do VougaAugust 2016 · 5 days of 1,920 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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