Wildfires in Tomar
Tomar, Portugal: 7 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 11 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,316 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tomar in August 2017, with 411 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
- 1,316ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.8%
- 347 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 411ha
- Tomar · August 2017
- Inhabitants
- 35,742
- 36.8 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 25° · 36 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 55 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 52 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 20 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 28 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 High 24° · 46 % · 39 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- União das Freguesias de Serra e Junceira 1,299 inhabitants 411 ha · 8.8 %
- Sabacheira 844 inhabitants 309 ha · 9.0 %
- Carregueiros 1,067 inhabitants 214 ha · 17 %
- Asseiceira 2,439 inhabitants 154 ha · 5.3 %
- Olalhas 1,217 inhabitants 115 ha · 3.3 %
- São Pedro de Tomar 2,681 inhabitants 113 ha · 3.1 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas31 %
- Mixed forest23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub7.8 %
- Broadleaved forest7.1 %
- Other natural land6.3 %
- Coniferous forest2.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Sabacheira309 ha
- 2×São Pedro de Tomar113 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 411 haTomar União das Freguesias de Serra e JunceiraAugust 2017 · 4 days
- 343 haCarregueirosOctober 2017 · 1 day
- 252 haTomar São Pedro de TomarJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 145 haTomar SabacheiraSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 115 haTomar OlalhasAugust 2022 · 4 days
- 35 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos15 August 2022 · 1 day of 164 ha in total
- 14 haTomar MartinchelAugust 2019 · 1 day of 384 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Tomar · 7
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 35 haOurém União das Freguesias de Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos15 August 2022 · 1 day of 164 ha in total
- 115 haTomar OlalhasAugust 2022 · 4 days
- 145 haTomar SabacheiraSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 14 haTomar MartinchelAugust 2019 · 1 day of 384 ha in total
- 343 haCarregueirosOctober 2017 · 1 day
- 411 haTomar União das Freguesias de Serra e JunceiraAugust 2017 · 4 days
- 252 haTomar São Pedro de TomarJuly 2017 · 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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