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PT · Portugal · Arcos de Valdevez · 199 inhabitants

Wildfires in Sistelo

Sistelo, Portugal, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2017: 106 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Low 13° · 41 % · 38 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 12° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 12° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 43 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 89 % · 48 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 66 % · 63 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 84 % · 81 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 84 % · 81 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

106
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
1
fires
26
km²

How many times has Sistelo burned?

Sistelo has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Cabreiro fire, October 2017, with 106 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
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  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
106
cumulative ha
15 Oct 2017
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 Sistelo

  1. 24 ha Cabreiro fire, January 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 106 ha Cabreiro fire, October 2017 4.0% of the municipality · 622 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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