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Wildfires in Canhas

Canhas, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. 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. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 82 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 83 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 74 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 79 % · 38 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 89 % · 21 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

693
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
2
fires
17
km²

How many times has Canhas burned?

Canhas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Serra de Água fire, August 2024, with 2 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
693
cumulative ha
14 Aug 2024
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 Canhas

  1. 2 ha Serra de Água fire, August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 6,003 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 691 ha Canhas fire, August 2016 where it started 41% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 6 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).

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