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PT · Portugal · Guimarães · 1,740 inhabitants

Wildfires in Infantas

Infantas, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 166 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 95 % · 38 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 94 % · 40 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 15° · 92 % · 42 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 96 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 15° · 73 % · 66 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 62 % · 50 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 70 % · 57 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 95 % · 61 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 Guimarães: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

166
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
2
fires
6
km²

How many times has Infantas burned?

Infantas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Fafe fire, 15 September 2024, with 90 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 166 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 106 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
166
cumulative ha
106
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 Infantas

  1. 90 ha Fafe fire, 15 September 2024 where it started 14% of the freguesia · 563 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 76 ha Arões (Santa Cristina) fire, August 2016 12% of the freguesia · 112 ha in total · 3 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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