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PT · Portugal · Castro Daire · 1,691 inhabitants

Wildfires in Mões

Mões, Portugal: 3 fires since 2017 burned 4,751 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 16° · 35 % · 44 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 36 % · 15 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 83 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 80 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 95 % · 53 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

4,751
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
3
fires
44
km²

How many times has Mões burned?

Mões has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Castro Daire fire, September 2024, with 3,937 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,751 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,956 hectares, 89 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,751
cumulative ha
3,956
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 Mões

  1. 3,937 ha Castro Daire fire, September 2024 89% of the municipality · 35,523 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 48 ha Castro Daire fire, November 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 766 ha Castro Daire fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 17% of the municipality · 866 ha in total · 2 days

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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