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Wildfires in Cambas

Cambas, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,340 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 15° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 19° · 54 % · 48 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 98 % · 58 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 97 % · 59 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 95 % · 46 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 15° · 92 % · 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

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The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,340
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
3
fires
48
km²

How many times has Cambas burned?

Cambas has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Proença-a-Nova fire, September 2020, with 474 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,340
cumulative ha
13 Sept 2020
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 Cambas

  1. 474 ha Proença-a-Nova fire, September 2020 9.8% of the freguesia · 15,536 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 203 ha Oleiros fire, October 2017 4.2% of the freguesia · 34,844 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 664 ha Cambas fire, August 2017 where it started 14% of the freguesia · 8,478 ha in total · 5 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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