Skip to content
worldfires
en
PT · Portugal · Mogadouro · 166 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bruçó

Bruçó, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 2,250 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 21° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 20° · 28 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 18° · 33 % · 33 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 13° · 41 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 13° · 37 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 14° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 15° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 14° · 47 % · 17 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

2,250
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
3
fires
33
km²

How many times has Bruçó burned?

Bruçó has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire, August 2021, with 30 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
2,250
cumulative ha
21 Aug 2021
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 Bruçó

  1. 30 ha Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire, August 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 431 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 9 ha Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire, July 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,210 ha Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire, September 2016 68% of the municipality · 5,971 ha in total · 3 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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS