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PT · Portugal · Cascais · 64,201 inhabitants

Wildfires in Alcabideche

Alcabideche, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 756 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Moderate 20° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 22° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 17° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Low 16° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 18° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 89 % · 38 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

756
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
2
fires
40
km²

How many times has Alcabideche burned?

Alcabideche has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2023. The most recent: Cascais fire, July 2023, with 224 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
756
cumulative ha
26 Jul 2023
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal →

Fires that entered Alcabideche

  1. 224 ha Cascais fire, July 2023 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 232 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 532 ha Cascais fire, October 2018 where it started 13% of the municipality · 606 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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