The SGIFR, managed by the Agency for Integrated Rural Fire Management (AGIF), has a new portal with information available for the public and media on fire risk, active fire occurrences, and protective measures, as well as statistics on fires and burned area.

The new portal indicates that between January 1st and July 11th (Friday), 3,202 rural fires broke out, consuming 9,974 hectares. In the same period last year, 1,902 units and 3,246 hectares of area burned.

The data showed that most rural fires were recorded this year in the North region, with 1,761, followed by Lisbon and Tagus Valley (521), Central (460), Alentejo (334), and Algarve (127).

The largest burned areas were in Alentejo (4,616 hectares) and the North (4,591), followed by Central (602), Lisbon and Tagus Valley (145), and Algarve (21 hectares).

According to SGIFR statistics, 28% of fires this year occurred on days of "very high" fire risk and 10% on days of "maximum" risk, while the flames consumed more burned area on days of "maximum" (29%) and "extreme" (17%) risk.