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PT · Portugal · Macedo de Cavaleiros · 149 inhabitants

Wildfires in Olmos

Olmos, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 289 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 28 Low 20° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 21° · 42 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 18° · 53 % · 14 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 21° · 37 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 23 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 17° · 25 % · 47 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 13° · 39 % · 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

289
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
2
fires
19
km²

How many times has Olmos burned?

Olmos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Macedo de Cavaleiros fire, September 2017, with 125 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
289
cumulative ha
24 Sept 2017
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 Olmos

  1. 125 ha Macedo de Cavaleiros fire, September 2017 6.7% of the municipality · 690 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 164 ha Macedo de Cavaleiros fire, August 2017 8.8% of the municipality · 914 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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