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PT · Portugal · Ponta do Sol · 3,597 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ponta do Sol

Ponta do Sol, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,890 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. 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. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 80 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 84 % · 31 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 97 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 77 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 91 % · 27 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

1,890
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
3
fires
27
km²

How many times has Ponta do Sol burned?

Ponta do Sol has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Serra de Água fire, August 2024, with 997 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,890 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,420 hectares, 52 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,890
cumulative ha
1,420
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 Sol

  1. 997 ha Serra de Água fire, August 2024 36% of the municipality · 6,003 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 203 ha Tabua fire, September 2017 7.4% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 690 ha Canhas fire, August 2016 25% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 6 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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