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Wildfires in Canelas e Espiunca

Canelas e Espiunca, Portugal: 3 fires since 2016 burned 4,246 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 15° · 79 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 93 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 93 % · 57 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 96 % · 53 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 92 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 12° · 90 % · 70 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 14° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 12° · 83 % · 67 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 Arouca: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

4,246
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
3
fires
35
km²

How many times has Canelas e Espiunca burned?

Canelas e Espiunca has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Arouca fire, July 2025, with 1,775 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,246 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,452 hectares, 97 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,246
cumulative ha
3,452
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 Canelas e Espiunca

  1. 1,775 ha Arouca fire, July 2025 50% of the freguesia · 6,555 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 535 ha Castro Daire fire, September 2024 15% of the freguesia · 35,523 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,937 ha Arouca fire, August 2016 55% of the freguesia · 30,331 ha in total · 9 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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