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PT · Portugal · Nelas · 4,636 inhabitants

Wildfires in Nelas

Nelas, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,433 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 65% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 22° · 25 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 16° · 35 % · 53 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 37 % · 50 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 17° · 42 % · 30 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

1,433
hectares burned
65 %
of its area
3
fires
22
km²

How many times has Nelas burned?

Nelas has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Nelas fire, September 2024, with 573 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,433 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 845 hectares, 39 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,433
cumulative ha
845
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 Nelas

  1. 573 ha Nelas fire, September 2024 26% of the municipality · 6,124 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 82 ha Nelas fire, August 2023 3.7% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 778 ha Pombeiro da Beira fire, October 2017 35% of the municipality · 132,830 ha in total · 10 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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