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Wildfires in Rio Douro

Rio Douro, Portugal, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,025 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% 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. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 94 % · 53 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 93 % · 57 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 95 % · 43 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 96 % · 48 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 94 % · 48 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 75 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 13° · 95 % · 48 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 Cabeceiras de Basto: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

3,025
hectares burned
70 %
of its area
7
fires
43
km²

How many times has Rio Douro burned?

Rio Douro has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 16 September 2024, with 790 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,025 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,335 hectares, 54 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
3,025
cumulative ha
2,335
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 Rio Douro

  1. 790 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 16 September 2024 where it started 18% of the freguesia · 789 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 245 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 14 September 2024 5.7% of the freguesia · 2,728 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 116 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, 25 August 2022 where it started 2.7% of the freguesia · 146 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 43 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, September 2019 1.0% of the freguesia · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 318 ha Cabeceiras de Basto fire, August 2017 where it started 7.4% of the freguesia · 384 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,419 ha Rio Douro fire, September 2016 where it started 33% of the freguesia · 1,582 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 95 ha Abadim fire, September 2016 2.2% of the freguesia · 201 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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