The fire that began in Piódão, in the municipality of Arganil (District of Coimbra),presents a burned area of 64,451 hectares, According to the provisional national report of the ICNF Forest Fire Information Management System (SGIF), to which the Lusa agency had access.
O which launched in Arganil on the 13th presents the largest burning area ever in Portugal, with 64 thousand hectares consumed, according to the provisional report of the Institute for Nature and Forest Conservation (ICNF).
The fire that began in Piódão, in the municipality of Arganil (District of Coimbra), and which resolution on Sunday, after 11 days,presents a burned area of 64,451 hectares, According to the provisional national report of the ICNF Forest Fire Information Management System (SGIF), to which the Lusa agency had access.
The report, with the last burned area update on Sunday, confirms that this fire has the largest burning area ever in Portugal since there are recordssurpassing the previous brand of fire that began in Vilarinho, in the municipality of Lousã, in October 2017, which had reached 53 thousand hectares.
The fire that began in Arganil also affected the municipalities of Pampilhosa da Serra and Oliveira do Hospital (District of Coimbra), Seia (Guarda) and Castelo Branco, Fundão and Covilhã (Castelo Branco).
