Hasvåg is a seaside village in the municipality of
Flatanger
Flatanger is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lauvsnes. Other villages include Jøssund, Hasvåg, and Vik.
The municipality is the 2 ...
in
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The village is located at the end of the
Hasvågøya peninsula in the far southwestern edge of Flatanger. 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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