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Wildfires in Urqueira

Urqueira, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 1,712 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 23° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 25° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 24° · 29 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 24° · 22 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 19° · 31 % · 34 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

1,712
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
2
fires
31
km²

How many times has Urqueira burned?

Urqueira has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Ourém fire, 19 August 2022, with 1,617 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,712
cumulative ha
19 Aug 2022
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 Urqueira

  1. 1,617 ha Ourém fire, 19 August 2022 52% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 95 ha Ourém fire, 1 August 2022 3.0% of the municipality · 229 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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