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Wildfires in Ponta do Pargo

Ponta do Pargo, Portugal: 2 fires since 2020 burned 3,114 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.3 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 78 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 77 % · 15 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 19° · 79 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 20° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 21° · 91 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 21° · 87 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 21° · 86 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 20° · 84 % · 32 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 Calheta: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

3,114
hectares burned
1.3×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
25
km²

How many times has Ponta do Pargo burned?

Ponta do Pargo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Fajã da Ovelha fire, October 2023, with 2,025 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,114 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,048 hectares, 82 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
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  8. 1× 23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,114
cumulative ha
2,048
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 Ponta do Pargo

  1. 2,025 ha Fajã da Ovelha fire, October 2023 81% of the freguesia · 4,844 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,089 ha Ponta do Pargo fire, February 2020 where it started 44% of the freguesia · 1,086 ha in total · 6 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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