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Wildfires in Almancil

Almancil, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 556 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 14 Very low 20° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 20° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 20° · 81 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 20° · 91 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 20° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 18° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 19° · 78 % · 32 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 freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

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The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

556
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
2
fires
62
km²

How many times has Almancil burned?

Almancil has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Almancil fire, July 2022, with 126 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
556
cumulative ha
13 Jul 2022
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 Almancil

  1. 126 ha Almancil fire, July 2022 where it started 2.0% of the freguesia · 133 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 430 ha Faro fire, July 2022 where it started 6.9% of the freguesia · 647 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

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

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