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Wildfires in Faro
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,090 km² of Faro at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 87 km², ranking 13th of 20 regions of Portugal.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 281 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 20 km². The 2021–2025 average is 34% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 July 2012, with detections in 157 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,090 km² with at least one detection, 1.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 985 | 91% |
| 2 years | 85 | 7.8% |
| 3 to 5 years | 14 | 1.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 2.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, -8.75 and holds 34% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 281 | 307 |
| 2013 | 43 | 54 |
| 2014 | 36 | 43 |
| 2015 | 38 | 61 |
| 2016 | 95 | 135 |
| 2017 | 31 | 54 |
| 2018 | 271 | 376 |
| 2019 | 50 | 59 |
| 2020 | 52 | 72 |
| 2021 | 100 | 130 |
| 2022 | 65 | 76 |
| 2023 | 67 | 86 |
| 2024 | 20 | 23 |
| 2025 | 74 | 89 |
Other regions of Portugal
- Viseu320 km² in an average year
- Vila Real294 km² in an average year
- Braga245 km² in an average year
- Guarda213 km² in an average year
- Viana do Castelo204 km² in an average year
- Porto197 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Beja141 km
- Setúbal166 km
- Lisbon172 km
- Huelva, Spain177 km
- Badajoz, Spain241 km
- Seville, Spain265 km