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PT · Portugal · Santo Tirso · 3,308 inhabitants

Wildfires in Roriz

Roriz, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 81 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 26 Low 22° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 20° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 20° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 20° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 24° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 24° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 43 % · 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 municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

81
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
2
fires
6
km²

How many times has Roriz burned?

Roriz has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Paços de Ferreira fire, September 2024, with 76 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 81 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 76 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   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
81
cumulative ha
76
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 Roriz

  1. 76 ha Paços de Ferreira fire, September 2024 13% of the municipality · 486 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5 ha Sanfins Lamoso Codessos fire, August 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 106 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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