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PT · Portugal · São Pedro do Sul · 660 inhabitants

Wildfires in Valadares

Valadares, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 581 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 14 Very low 13° · 89 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 95 % · 51 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 97 % · 55 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 95 % · 52 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 15° · 95 % · 59 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 11° · 95 % · 80 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 14° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 11° · 96 % · 48 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

581
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
2
fires
21
km²

How many times has Valadares burned?

Valadares has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Valadares fire, October 2017, with 580 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
581
cumulative ha
12 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 Valadares

  1. 580 ha Valadares fire, October 2017 where it started 28% of the freguesia · 2,532 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1 ha Arouca fire, August 2016 0.1% 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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