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Wildfires in Carvalhal

Carvalhal, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 856 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% 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 19° · 76 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 18° · 74 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 18° · 92 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 19° · 75 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 22° · 71 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 20° · 86 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 17° · 56 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 17° · 69 % · 20 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

856
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
3
fires
18
km²

How many times has Carvalhal burned?

Carvalhal has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Abrantes fire, July 2020, with 75 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 856 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 811 hectares, 46 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
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  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
856
cumulative ha
811
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 Carvalhal

  1. 75 ha Abrantes fire, July 2020 4.3% of the freguesia · 212 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 38 ha Ferreira do Zêzere fire, August 2017 2.1% of the freguesia · 25,305 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 744 ha Abrantes fire, August 2016 where it started 42% of the freguesia · 2,185 ha in total · 3 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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