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Wildfires in Cardigos

Cardigos, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 5,791 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 82% 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. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 93 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 89 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 15° · 96 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 16° · 83 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 19° · 76 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 17° · 86 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 14° · 61 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 15° · 73 % · 23 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

5,791
hectares burned
82 %
of its area
2
fires
71
km²

How many times has Cardigos burned?

Cardigos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Vila de Rei fire, July 2019, with 4,173 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,791 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,576 hectares, 79 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
5,791
cumulative ha
5,576
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 Cardigos

  1. 4,173 ha Vila de Rei fire, July 2019 where it started 59% of the freguesia · 9,924 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,618 ha Sertã fire, 23 July 2017 23% of the freguesia · 36,849 ha in total · 6 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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