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Wildfires in Miranda do Corvo

Miranda do Corvo, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 229 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 4 Moderate 16° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 74 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 61 % · 57 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 98 % · 70 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 92 % · 73 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.

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

229
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
2
fires
47
km²

How many times has Miranda do Corvo burned?

Miranda do Corvo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Almalaguês fire, September 2019, with 221 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
229
cumulative ha
14 Sept 2019
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 Miranda do Corvo

  1. 221 ha Almalaguês fire, September 2019 4.8% of the freguesia · 552 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 8 ha Coimbra fire, August 2017 0.2% of the freguesia · 1,894 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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