Wildfires in Silves
Silves, Portugal: 6 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 6 freguesias since 2016, burning 14,298 hectares inside the region. The largest was Monchique in August 2018, with 10,042 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
- 14,298ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 22%
- 639 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 10,042ha
- Monchique · August 2018
- Inhabitants
- 30,550
- 468.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Moderate 26° · 43 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 High 26° · 29 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 40 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 57 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 49 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 25° · 44 % · 38 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 22° · 32 % · 26 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Silves 10,663 inhabitants 8,493 ha · 48 %
- São Marcos da Serra 1,113 inhabitants 4,095 ha · 25 %
- São Bartolomeu de Messines 8,159 inhabitants 1,710 ha · 7.1 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland37 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub30 %
- Broadleaved forest24 %
- Agricultural areas6.9 %
- Mixed forest0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×São Marcos da Serra4,095 ha
- 3×São Bartolomeu de Messines1,710 ha
- 2×Silves8,493 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 10,042 haMonchiqueAugust 2018 · 8 days of 27,635 ha in total
- 1,882 haSilves São Marcos da SerraAugust 2016 · 1 day
- 1,320 haSilves São Marcos da SerraJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 573 haSilves São Marcos da SerraJuly 2020 · 2 days
- 305 haOdemira São Marcos da SerraSeptember 2026 · 2 days of 496 ha in total
- 177 haSilvesSeptember 2016 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Silves · 6
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 305 haOdemira São Marcos da SerraSeptember 2026 · 2 days of 496 ha in total
- 1,320 haSilves São Marcos da SerraJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 573 haSilves São Marcos da SerraJuly 2020 · 2 days
- 10,042 haMonchiqueAugust 2018 · 8 days of 27,635 ha in total
- 177 haSilvesSeptember 2016 · 2 days
- 1,882 haSilves São Marcos da SerraAugust 2016 · 1 day
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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