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Wildfires in Linhares

Linhares, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,394 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 89% 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. Fri 13 Very low 13° · 92 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 12° · 90 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 11° · 94 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 71 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 95 % · 59 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 15° · 89 % · 64 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 10° · 85 % · 73 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 11° · 95 % · 47 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 Celorico da Beira: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,394
hectares burned
89 %
of its area
2
fires
16
km²

How many times has Linhares burned?

Linhares has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Serra da Estrela fire, August 2022, with 671 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,394 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 897 hectares, 57 % 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
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  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,394
cumulative ha
897
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 Linhares

  1. 671 ha Serra da Estrela fire, August 2022 43% of the freguesia · 25,260 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 724 ha Seia fire, October 2017 46% of the freguesia · 19,125 ha in total · 8 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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