Hasvåg is a seaside village in
Flatanger Municipality
Flatanger is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is Lauvsnes. Other villages incl ...
in
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. The village is located at the end of the
Hasvågøya peninsula in the far southwestern edge of the municipality. The village has about fifty inhabitants.
On 28 January 2014, a lightning strike caused a wildfire to spread across the
heather fields surrounding the village. The fire destroyed the majority of the houses in Hasvåg, but no one lost their lives.
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Aerial view of the village in 2014
Villages in Trøndelag
Flatanger
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