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Wildfires in Fontes

Fontes, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 575 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 26° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 24° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 22° · 32 % · 45 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 20° · 29 % · 50 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

575
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
4
fires
28
km²

How many times has Fontes burned?

Fontes has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Santa Marta de Penaguião fire, August 2022, with 278 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 575 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 508 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
575
cumulative ha
508
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 Fontes

  1. 278 ha Santa Marta de Penaguião fire, August 2022 where it started 9.8% of the municipality · 278 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 137 ha Abrantes fire, July 2020 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 212 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 34 ha Ferreira do Zêzere fire, August 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 25,305 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 126 ha Abrantes fire, August 2016 4.4% of the municipality · 2,185 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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