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Wildfires in Ceira

Ceira, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 564 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 31 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 40 % · 41 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 18° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 17° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 20° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 83 % · 26 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

564
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
3
fires
12
km²

How many times has Ceira burned?

Ceira has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Coimbra fire, September 2024, with 55 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 564 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 523 hectares, 42 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
564
cumulative ha
523
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 Ceira

  1. 55 ha Coimbra fire, September 2024 4.4% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 404 ha Coimbra fire, August 2017 32% of the municipality · 1,894 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 104 ha Torres do Mondego fire, July 2017 8.4% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day

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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