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Wildfires in Valença

Valença, Portugal: 9 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 11 freguesias since 2016, burning 2,204 hectares inside the region. The largest was Valença in September 2019, with 522 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
2,204ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
105 km²
fires
9
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 11
Largest fire
522ha
Valença · September 2019
Inhabitants
13,625
161.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 15° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 89 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 53 % · 22 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Boivão 185 inhabitants 660 ha · 83 %
  2. União das Freguesias de Gandra e Taião 1,391 inhabitants 503 ha · 25 %
  3. Cerdal 1,550 inhabitants 430 ha · 23 %
  4. Gondomil e Safins 418 inhabitants 321 ha · 18 %
  5. Fontoura 686 inhabitants 238 ha · 26 %
  6. Ganfei 1,207 inhabitants 156 ha · 16 %
  7. Verdoejo 573 inhabitants 58 ha · 14 %
  8. Friestas 513 inhabitants 17 ha · 4.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland48 %
  • Other natural land38 %
  • Broadleaved forest5.2 %
  • Agricultural areas3.2 %
  • Coniferous forest3.1 %
  • Mixed forest2.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20242493 Valença 383 ha
20231185 Valença 185 ha
2022118 Monção 18 ha
2021125 Formariz e Ferreira 25 ha
20201156 Valença 156 ha
20192676 Valença 522 ha
20171347 Valença 347 ha
20162483 Monção 370 ha

All fires in Valença · 11

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).