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PT · Portugal · Paredes de Coura · 330 inhabitants

Wildfires in Coura

Coura, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 1 Low 23° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 21° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 17° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 15° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 15° · 45 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 75 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 21° · 46 % · 51 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

246
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
2
fires
7
km²

How many times has Coura burned?

Coura has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Rubiães fire, August 2016, with 39 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
246
cumulative ha
8 Aug 2016
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 Coura

  1. 39 ha Rubiães fire, August 2016 5.8% of the municipality · 192 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 207 ha Cabração e Moreira do Lima fire, August 2016 31% of the municipality · 9,224 ha in total · 5 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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