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PT · Portugal · Caminha · 1,491 inhabitants

Wildfires in Moledo e Cristelo

Moledo e Cristelo, Portugal, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2016: 61 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sun 1 Low 23° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 22° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 18° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 15° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 15° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 76 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 63 % · 55 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

61
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
1
fires
10
km²

How many times has Moledo e Cristelo burned?

Moledo e Cristelo has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Caminha fire, August 2016, with 61 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
61
cumulative ha
9 Aug 2016
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 Moledo e Cristelo

  1. 61 ha Caminha fire, August 2016 5.9% of the municipality · 1,896 ha in total · 4 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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