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Wildfires in Pontevedra

Pontevedra, Spain: 35 fires with a page have entered 34 of its 61 municipalities since 2016, burning 27,940 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pazos de Borbén in October 2017, with 8,727 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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: 27,940ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 6.2%; 4,499 km²
fires: 35; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 34; of 61
Largest fire: 8,727ha; Pazos de Borbén · October 2017
Inhabitants: 901,744; 31.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very low 15° · 56 % · 36 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 15° · 63 % · 32 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 16° · 81 % · 22 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 20° · 60 % · 24 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 17° · 76 % · 35 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 20° · 67 % · 27 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 17° · 74 % · 23 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 18° · 75 % · 23 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

As Neves 3,657 inhabitants 4,024 ha · 61 %
Pazos de Borbén 3,046 inhabitants 2,937 ha · 59 %
Ponte Caldelas 5,609 inhabitants 2,802 ha · 32 %
Ponteareas 23,211 inhabitants 2,274 ha · 18 %
Arbo 2,603 inhabitants 2,175 ha · 51 %
Cerdedo-Cotobade 5,671 inhabitants 1,443 ha · 6.7 %
Vigo 294,489 inhabitants 1,175 ha · 11 %
Gondomar 15,066 inhabitants 1,058 ha · 14 %
Soutomaior 7,589 inhabitants 883 ha · 35 %
Caldas de Reis 9,615 inhabitants 881 ha · 13 %
Fornelos de Montes 1,614 inhabitants 773 ha · 9.8 %
Nigrán 18,174 inhabitants 651 ha · 19 %

What burns in the region

Other natural land32 %
Broadleaved forest29 %
Scrub and transitional woodland13 %
Coniferous forest10 %
Mixed forest7.4 %
Agricultural areas6.8 %
Artificial surfaces1.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

6×Ponteareas2,274 ha
4×Mondariz280 ha
3×Arbo2,175 ha
3×Cerdedo-Cotobade1,443 ha
3×Soutomaior883 ha
3×Caldas de Reis881 ha
3×Pontevedra622 ha
3×Salvaterra de Miño595 ha

Largest recorded fires

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	918	Ponteareas 918 ha
2025	3	1,186	Agolada 529 ha
2024	2	403	Crecente 256 ha
2022	6	1,896	Caldas de Reis 573 ha
2021	2	275	Salvaterra de Miño 148 ha
2020	1	114	Rodeiro 114 ha
2019	1	135	Cerdedo-Cotobade 135 ha
2018	1	111	Mondariz 111 ha
2017	10	18,674	Pazos de Borbén 8,727 ha
2016	8	4,228	Arbo 2,147 ha

All fires in Pontevedra · 35

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/El Instituto Nacional de Estadstica (National Institute of Statistics (INE) Data License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).