Burned area
satellite only146ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
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- perimeter revised on 26 January 2022
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Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro fire, April 2017 Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro
Out · last detection 13 Apr 2017, 02:43 UTC
The fire started on 12 April 2017 in Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 146 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single freguesia.
This entry is most likely a pasture burn or a prescribed winter burn in northern Portugal, not a wildfire. In these hills scrub is burnt to renew grazing, and this fire is not in the ICNF register of rural fires. This is our assumption, based on the time of year and the lack of an official record; it is not confirmed. That is why it is left out of the wildfire rankings.
The power measured by the satellite is low (7.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only2days
12 Apr 2017 to 13 Apr 2017: first and last day with fire on the page.
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- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 13 Apr 2017, 02:43 UTC
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Start
satellite only12 Apr 2017
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 12 Apr 2017
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only13
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 7 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2017 – 13 Apr 2017
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The worst day
satellite only50MW
Total radiative power on 12 April 2017; hotspots that day: 10.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2017
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Danger at the start
model13.6FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 10.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2017, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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Weather during the fire
model18.4°C · 35% RH
High of 18.4 °C and minimum humidity of 35% on 12 April 2017; gusts of 36 km/h on 13 April 2017.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 12 Apr 2017 – 13 Apr 2017
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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- Area
- 146 ha
- Dates
- 12 Apr 2017 – 13 Apr 2017
- Name
- Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro
- Official record
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https://worldfires.org/en/fire/castro-laboreiro-e-lamas-de-mouro-2017-04?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire castro-laboreiro-e-lamas-de-mouro-2017-04.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-12 | 10 | 50 | 18.4 | 8 | 35 | 10.7 | 31 | 0 | 13.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-04-13 | 3 | 5 | 16.5 | 6.4 | 45 | 12.2 | 35.6 | 0 | 11.1 | bajo | 1 |
| 2017-04-14 | 0 | 0 | 13.4 | 5.5 | 56 | 8.4 | 31.3 | 0 | 7.6 | bajo | 0 |
| 2017-04-15 | 0 | 0 | 15.1 | 2.7 | 51 | 9.4 | 25.6 | 0.2 | 7.2 | bajo | 0 |
| 2017-04-16 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 4.4 | 34 | 8.8 | 22.3 | 0 | 9.6 | bajo | 0 |
| 2017-04-17 | 0 | 0 | 17.3 | 5.2 | 45 | 9.1 | 24.1 | 0 | 8.7 | bajo | 0 |
| 2017-04-18 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 | 6.4 | 61 | 9.7 | 34.2 | 1 | 6.8 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 146ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 12 Apr 2017 – 13 Apr 2017
- Freguesias hit
- 1
- freguesias
- Started on
- 12 Apr
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 13
- in a single hotspot: 7 MW
- Danger at start
- 14
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 28MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
12 Apr13 Apr
13 Apr 2017
How it evolved, day by day
12 Apr
13 Apr
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
18°high
36km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity
It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 18 Apr.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each freguesia
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146 ha reached on 12 Apr1.4 %
Burnt area inside each freguesia, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land87 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland13 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- LIC Peneda / Gerês PTCON0001
- ZEPA Serra do Gerês PTZPE0002
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Apr | 18.4 °C | 35 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 13 Apr | 16.5 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 14 Apr after | 13.4 °C | 56 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 15 Apr after | 15.1 °C | 51 % | 26 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 7 |
| 16 Apr after | 18.5 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 17 Apr after | 17.3 °C | 45 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 18 Apr after | 14.5 °C | 61 % | 34 km/h | 1.0 mm | Low 7 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 13.6, a minimum humidity of 35% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
13.6
Minimum humidity
35 %
Days without rain
10
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
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Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro fire, April 2017
146 ha
2 days
FWI 13.6
Min. humidity 35 %
Ribadeo fire, October 2023
1,064 ha
1 day
FWI 13.6
Min. humidity 35 %
187 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 17.8 mm on 13 Oct.
Silleda fire, October 2017
413 ha
4 days
FWI 12.1
Min. humidity 35 %
70 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 21.2 mm on 16 Oct.
Ribadeo fire, October 2023
1,121 ha
1 day
FWI 15.1
Min. humidity 35 %
181 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 25.5 mm on 13 Oct.
Vieira do Minho fire, September 2026
252 ha
1 day
FWI 15.7
Min. humidity 34 %
44 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Esperança e Brunhais fire, September 2026
136 ha
3 days
FWI 16.2
Min. humidity 34 %
49 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 296 ha
- median area
- 19 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 9.9 mm
- rain at the end (median; 16 of 21 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 146 ha against a median of 296 ha. It lasted 2 days, against 2 days.
In 5 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 9.9 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
1.0 mmfirst rain
18 Apr5 days after it ended
36km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 13 Apr, and on 18 Apr 1.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 21, with a median of 9.9 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 5 Apr 2017
After · 20 Apr 2017
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 11 April 2017 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1032 µg/m³
WHO 15
10 Apr12 Apr14 Apr16 Apr
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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 · 13Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,662 haArcos de Valdevez Soajo8 August 2016 · 9 days · 19 km away
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- 3,333 haAs NevesOctober 2017 · 1 day · 21 km away
- 3,240 haMuíñosOctober 2017 · 2 days · 22 km away
- 7,225 haPonte da Barca Entre Ambos-os-Rios, Ermida e GermilJuly 2025 · 11 days · 24 km away
- 3,096 haCarballeda de AviaAugust 2025 · 5 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 12 April 2017 and 13 April 2017: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 146 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which freguesias burned?
- The fire only entered Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro (146 ha, 1.4 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro and came within 1.4 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 18.4 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 21. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 296 ha; 19 % went past 1,000 ha. In 5 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 9.9 mm.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings
- ICNF · Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas ↗
- ANEPC · Proteção Civil ↗
- Fogos.pt (ocorrências em tempo real) ↗
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 13 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Probably a vegetation burn: not counted in the totals.
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. Freguesia boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.