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PT · Portugal · Carregal do Sal · 744 inhabitants

Wildfires in Parada

Parada, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 802 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 22° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 20° · 32 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 18° · 33 % · 61 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 17° · 40 % · 57 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

802
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
2
fires
12
km²

How many times has Parada burned?

Parada has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Nelas fire, September 2024, with 2 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
802
cumulative ha
14 Sept 2024
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 Parada

  1. 2 ha Nelas fire, September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 6,124 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 800 ha Pombeiro da Beira fire, October 2017 69% 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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