Description
Activation time (UTC): 2017-06-18 20:43:00
Event time (UTC): 2017-06-17 13:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
Starting on Saturday 17th June 2017 during an intense heatwave and rainless thunderstorms, huge forest fires erupted across Portugal, particularly in Leiria District (Pedrogão Grande, Fire of Pampilhosa) northeast of Lisbon. Many victims are reported and numerous towns and villages evacuated. The road where most people died is EN-236-1 which runs between Pampilhosa da Serra and Castalheira de Pêra.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 34
Grading products: 27
Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Forest fires in Leiria District, Portugal (2017-06-18). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/6d3c8773-41e5-41d7-982f-0240da2bfb33
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management Copernicus Emergency Management Service EMSR207 Mapping PRT Portugal Wildfire Rapid Mapping
Data access
All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.
Spatial coverage
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|---|---|
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2017-06-18
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR207
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/6d3c8773-41e5-41d7-982f-0240da2bfb33
- Popularity
- 08 Apr 2024: 1 visits