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PT · Portugal · Oleiros · 638 inhabitants

Wildfires in Orvalho

Orvalho, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,184 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 66% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 29 % · 42 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 18° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 82 % · 44 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 98 % · 63 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 97 % · 60 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

2,184
hectares burned
66 %
of its area
3
fires
33
km²

How many times has Orvalho burned?

Orvalho has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Proença-a-Nova fire, September 2020, with 0 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,184
cumulative ha
13 Sept 2020
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 Orvalho

  1. 0 ha Proença-a-Nova fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 15,536 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,608 ha Cambas fire, August 2017 48% of the municipality · 8,478 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 576 ha Oleiros fire, June 2017 where it started 17% of the municipality · 655 ha in total · 1 day

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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