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Wildfires in Jou

Jou, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,075 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Thu 29 Low 20° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 18° · 52 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 19° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 18° · 29 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 16° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 11° · 46 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 12° · 54 % · 25 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

2,075
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
2
fires
37
km²

How many times has Jou burned?

Jou has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Murça fire, July 2022, with 2,050 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,075
cumulative ha
17 Jul 2022
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 Jou

  1. 2,050 ha Murça fire, July 2022 55% of the municipality · 7,641 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 26 ha Valongo de Milhais fire, July 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 137 ha in total · 1 day

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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