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Wildfires in Escariz

Escariz, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 690 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 18° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 22° · 48 % · 45 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 73 % · 55 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 97 % · 63 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 97 % · 54 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 16° · 87 % · 43 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

Smoke today in Arouca: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

690
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
2
fires
18
km²

How many times has Escariz burned?

Escariz has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Chave fire, October 2017, with 683 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
690
cumulative ha
12 Oct 2017
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 Escariz

  1. 683 ha Chave fire, October 2017 39% of the freguesia · 8,253 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 42 ha Fermedo fire, April 2017 2.4% of the freguesia · 255 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 7 ha Arouca fire, August 2016 0.4% of the freguesia · 30,331 ha in total · 9 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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