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PT · Portugal · São Pedro do Sul · 654 inhabitants

Wildfires in Pinho

Pinho, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 716 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 4 High 15° · 33 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 35 % · 15 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 49 % · 13 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 72 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 74 % · 53 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 85 % · 54 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 96 % · 37 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 freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in São Pedro do Sul: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

716
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
2
fires
14
km²

How many times has Pinho burned?

Pinho has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Castro Daire fire, September 2024, with 666 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 716 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 666 hectares, 49 % 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.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
716
cumulative ha
666
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 Pinho

  1. 666 ha Castro Daire fire, September 2024 49% of the freguesia · 35,523 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 50 ha Pinho fire, October 2017 where it started 3.7% of the freguesia · 102 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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