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Wildfires in Espinho

Espinho, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 679 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Tue 27 Low 20° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 21° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 23° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 23° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 21° · 34 % · 34 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

679
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
2
fires
41
km²

How many times has Espinho burned?

Espinho has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Mortágua fire, October 2017, with 653 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
679
cumulative ha
7 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 Espinho

  1. 653 ha Mortágua fire, October 2017 where it started 16% of the municipality · 888 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 26 ha Anadia fire, August 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 3,717 ha in total · 3 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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