Skip to content
worldfires
ES · Spain · Pontevedra · 83,316 inhabitants

Wildfires in Pontevedra

Pontevedra, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 622 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 23 Very low 17° · 58 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 73 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 70 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 62 % · 17 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

622
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
3
fires
118
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pontevedra

  1. 326 ha Pontevedra fire, August 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 407 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 252 ha Pontevedra fire, August 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 316 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 44 ha Cerdedo-Cotobade fire, August 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 524 ha in total · 4 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).