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Wildfires in Sul

Sul, Portugal: 2 fires since 2016 burned 5,600 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Fri 6 Moderate 15° · 49 % · 15 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 64 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 18° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 19° · 63 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 97 % · 55 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 92 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 94 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 97 % · 35 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 São Pedro do Sul: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

5,600
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
52
km²

How many times has Sul burned?

Sul has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Castro Daire fire, September 2024, with 3,553 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,600 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,493 hectares, 86 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
5,600
cumulative ha
4,493
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 Sul

  1. 3,553 ha Castro Daire fire, September 2024 68% of the freguesia · 35,523 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,047 ha Arouca fire, August 2016 39% of the freguesia · 30,331 ha in total · 9 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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