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Wildfires in Ponte Caldelas

Ponte Caldelas, Spain, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,802 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 4 Low 14° · 43 % · 39 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 13° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 80 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 61 % · 48 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 73 % · 64 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 92 % · 67 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 97 % · 67 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

2,802
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
2
fires
87
km²

How many times has Ponte Caldelas burned?

Ponte Caldelas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Pontevedra fire, August 2022, with 80 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,802
cumulative ha
5 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 Spain

Fires that entered Ponte Caldelas

  1. 80 ha Pontevedra fire, August 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 407 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,722 ha Pazos de Borbén fire, October 2017 31% of the municipality · 8,722 ha in total · 1 day

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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