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Wildfires in Folgoso do Courel

Folgoso do Courel, Spain, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 7,664 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 2 Low 20° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Moderate 16° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 12° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 13° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 35 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 18° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 64 % · 46 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 65 % · 54 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

7,664
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
5
fires
194
km²

How many times has Folgoso do Courel burned?

Folgoso do Courel has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Larouco fire, August 2025, with 44 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
7,664
cumulative ha
14 Aug 2025
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 Spain →

Fires that entered Folgoso do Courel

  1. 44 ha Larouco fire, August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 37,831 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 6,949 ha Folgoso do Courel fire, July 2022 where it started 36% of the municipality · 13,989 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 198 ha Folgoso do Courel fire, June 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 198 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 285 ha Folgoso do Courel fire, April 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 308 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 188 ha Folgoso do Courel fire, October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 188 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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