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Wildfires in Silves

Silves, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 8,493 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 Moderate 23° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 24° · 47 % · 41 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

8,493
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
2
fires
176
km²

How many times has Silves burned?

Silves has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2018. The most recent: Monchique fire, August 2018, with 8,317 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
8,493
cumulative ha
3 Aug 2018
most recent

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 Silves

  1. 8,317 ha Monchique fire, August 2018 47% of the municipality · 27,635 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 177 ha Silves fire, September 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 176 ha in total · 2 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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