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Wildfires in Lagares

Lagares, Portugal: 2 fires since 2017 burned 1,448 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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 16° · 82 % · 43 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 96 % · 49 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 95 % · 53 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 95 % · 44 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 93 % · 55 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 86 % · 66 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 18° · 93 % · 61 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 94 % · 56 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 Oliveira do Hospital: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,448
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
13
km²

How many times has Lagares burned?

Lagares has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Oliveira do Hospital fire, August 2022, with 133 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,448 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,315 hectares, 100 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  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
1,448
cumulative ha
1,315
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 Lagares

  1. 133 ha Oliveira do Hospital fire, August 2022 10% of the freguesia · 1,448 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,315 ha Pombeiro da Beira fire, October 2017 100% of the freguesia · 132,830 ha in total · 10 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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