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Wildfires in Cousso

Cousso, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 109 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Mon 26 Low 20° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 20° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 20° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 19° · 36 % · 19 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

109
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
2
fires
7
km²

How many times has Cousso burned?

Cousso has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Melgaço fire, October 2023, with 73 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 109 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 89 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
109
cumulative ha
89
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 Cousso

  1. 73 ha Melgaço fire, October 2023 where it started 10% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 36 ha Melgaço fire, September 2020 5.1% of the municipality · 103 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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