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Baião fire, 11 July 2022 Teixeira e Teixeiró, Bustelo, Carneiro e Carvalho de Rei, Candemil

Out · last detection 18 Jul 2022, 13:29 UTC

The fire started on 11 July 2022 in Teixeira e Teixeiró, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,734 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 3th largest in Baião since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 10 in Portugal in 2022, of 107.

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Burnt area
1,734ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
8days
11 Jul 2022 – 18 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
3
freguesias
Started on
11 Jul
2022
Heat detections
91
in a single hotspot: 219 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
681MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jul18 Jul
18 Jul 2022

How it evolved, day by day

11 Jul 2022 · 1 MW · 1 14 Jul 2022 · 326 MW · 9 15 Jul 2022 · 1,713 MW · 53 16 Jul 2022 · 8 MW · 3 17 Jul 2022 · 1,595 MW · 18 18 Jul 2022 · 446 MW · 7
11 Jul 14 Jul 15 Jul 16 Jul 17 Jul 18 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
51km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 19 Jul.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 16 ha in 2021.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.1% of the area of London (17 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Teixeira e Teixeiró 723 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town where it started
    853 ha reached on 11 Jul
    32 %
  2. Bustelo, Carneiro e Carvalho de Rei 827 inhabitants · 1.3 km from the town
    537 ha reached on 14 Jul
    23 %
  3. Candemil 586 inhabitants · 1.5 km from the town
    347 ha reached on 14 Jul
    29 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land82 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland15 %
  • Agricultural areas1.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.3 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 46 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

Official record

Several official records match this area

According to ICNF, 3 fires started inside this perimeter on these dates, totalling 1,318 ha (the satellite measured 1,734 ha). The two figures differ a lot, so these may not be exactly the same fire: take them as nearby records.

ICNF records each fire that started at a different time or place separately; the satellite sees a single burned area, so this page groups them together. The numbers on the map show where each one started.

When each one burned

1 9 ha 2 8 ha 3 1,301 ha
10 Jul17 Jul
cause unknown or not published
  1. 1 Baião Teixeira 10 July 2022 · 13:51 9 ha · extinguished on 11 July 2022 · cause: unknown
  2. 2 Baião Teixeira 10 July 2022 · 20:17 8 ha · extinguished on 11 July 2022 · cause: unknown
  3. 3 Baião Teixeira 14 July 2022 · 06:28 1,301 ha · extinguished on 17 July 2022 · cause: unknown

Total according to ICNF: 1,318 ha, 76 % of the 1,734 ha in the satellite perimeter.

ICNF (Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas). This is the agency’s operational record: its figures may be revised when the year’s statistics are closed.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
11 Jul 28.7 °C 43 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
12 Jul 35.2 °C 20 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Jul 34.7 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Jul 35.8 °C 22 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Jul 34.2 °C 23 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Jul 31.9 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
17 Jul 33.6 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
18 Jul 25.8 °C 40 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Jul after 20.9 °C 53 % 45 km/h 1.2 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 4 Jul 2022
After · 25 Jul 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 16 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 30: 2.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak55 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1068 µg/m³
9101112131415161718192021
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 91Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Baião fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 11 July 2022 to 18 July 2022 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 11 July 2022 to 16 July 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,734 hectares (17.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Teixeira e Teixeiró (853 ha, 32 %); Bustelo, Carneiro e Carvalho de Rei (537 ha, 23 %); Candemil (347 ha, 29 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Teixeira e Teixeiró. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Portugal (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 11 July 2022 to 16 July 2022. 91 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • Compared with ICNF: 1,318 official ha against 1,734 ha of perimeter; similar, but with reservations.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.