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Wildfires in Amêndoa

Amêndoa, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,803 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 23° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 19° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 17° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 17° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 66 % · 26 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

1,803
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
4
fires
38
km²

How many times has Amêndoa burned?

Amêndoa has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Vila de Rei fire, July 2019, with 1,500 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
1,803
cumulative ha
20 Jul 2019
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 Amêndoa

  1. 1,500 ha Vila de Rei fire, July 2019 40% of the municipality · 9,924 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 83 ha Ferreira do Zêzere fire, August 2017 2.2% of the municipality · 25,305 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 71 ha Sertã fire, 23 July 2017 1.9% of the municipality · 36,849 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 149 ha Mação fire, July 2017 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 1 day

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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