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PT · Portugal · Braga · 1,060 inhabitants

Wildfires in Pedralva

Pedralva, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 36 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 Moderate 23° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 24 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 39 % · 58 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 34 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 17° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 21° · 52 % · 39 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

36
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
2
fires
8
km²

How many times has Pedralva burned?

Pedralva has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Póvoa de Lanhoso fire, October 2017, with 17 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
36
cumulative ha
15 Oct 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 Pedralva

  1. 17 ha Póvoa de Lanhoso fire, October 2017 2.1% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 19 ha Braga fire, August 2016 2.4% of the municipality · 348 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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