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Wildfires in Vimioso

Vimioso, Portugal: 4 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 10 freguesias since 2016, burning 1,172 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vimioso in August 2024, with 493 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
1,172ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.4%
496 km²
fires
4
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 10
Largest fire
493ha
Vimioso · August 2024
Inhabitants
4,033
290.7 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 Moderate 15° · 40 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 16° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 18° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 21° · 47 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 41 % · 18 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. Caçarelhos e Angueira 296 inhabitants 407 ha · 7.7 %
  2. Pinelo 220 inhabitants 340 ha · 10 %
  3. Carção 388 inhabitants 181 ha · 6.6 %
  4. Argozelo 560 inhabitants 91 ha · 3.1 %
  5. Vale de Frades e Avelanoso 293 inhabitants 85 ha · 1.2 %
  6. Santulhão 330 inhabitants 61 ha · 1.2 %
  7. Matela 211 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Vimioso 1,245 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas48 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland32 %
  • Other natural land16 %
  • Mixed forest1.5 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.5 %
  • Coniferous forest0.8 %

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20241493 Vimioso 493 ha
20231431 Vimioso 431 ha
20191242 Vimioso 242 ha
201717 Talhas 7 ha

All fires in Vimioso · 4

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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