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Wildfires in Arcozelo

Arcozelo, Portugal: 7 fires since 2016 burned 2,759 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Thu 5 Moderate 13° · 38 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 40 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 63 % · 56 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 79 % · 59 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 90 % · 58 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 15° · 86 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 12° · 86 % · 45 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

Smoke today in Gouveia: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

2,759
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
7
fires
24
km²

How many times has Arcozelo burned?

Arcozelo has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Gouveia fire, July 2020, with 4 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,759 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,199 hectares, 91 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
2,759
cumulative ha
2,199
distinct ha

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 Arcozelo

  1. 4 ha Gouveia fire, July 2020 0.2% of the freguesia · 105 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,020 ha Seia fire, October 2017 42% of the freguesia · 19,125 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 104 ha Gouveia fire, August 2017 where it started 4.3% of the freguesia · 259 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 308 ha Mangualde fire, July 2017 13% of the freguesia · 1,667 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 708 ha Abrunhosa-a-Velha fire, July 2017 29% of the freguesia · 3,399 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 498 ha Gouveia fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 21% of the freguesia · 1,353 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 116 ha Gouveia fire, 8 August 2016 4.8% of the freguesia · 917 ha in total · 2 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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