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PT · Portugal · Penafiel · 1,792 inhabitants

Wildfires in Croca

Croca, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 344 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 23 Low 16° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 17° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 18° · 73 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 22° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 19° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 22° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 21° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 20° · 68 % · 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 municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

344
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
3
fires
7
km²

How many times has Croca burned?

Croca has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Penafiel fire, September 2024, with 83 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 344 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 205 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
344
cumulative ha
205
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 Croca

  1. 83 ha Penafiel fire, September 2024 13% of the municipality · 573 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 149 ha Penafiel fire, July 2022 23% of the municipality · 259 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 112 ha Vila Boa de Quires e Maureles fire, August 2016 17% of the municipality · 354 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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