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Wildfires in Capinha

Capinha, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 20° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 17° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 16° · 31 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 52 % · 30 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

495
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
3
fires
40
km²

How many times has Capinha burned?

Capinha has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Fundão fire, 7 August 2020, with 289 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 495 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 422 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
495
cumulative ha
422
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 Capinha

  1. 289 ha Fundão fire, 7 August 2020 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 470 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 99 ha Fundão fire, July 2019 2.5% of the municipality · 273 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 106 ha Fundão fire, October 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 106 ha in total · 2 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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