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Wildfires in Italy

1,932 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 647,613 hectares burned across 1,218 municipalities.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

These figures leave out 23 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus EFFIS

Italy, at this point in the year: 117,295 hectares, 2.1 times the 2006–2025 average.

2026 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–202571,186 ha

Worst year2021 150,552 ha

With a page here1,932 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	698	117,295	EFFIS
2025	612	84,348	EFFIS
2024	383	40,122	EFFIS
2023	534	97,984	EFFIS
2022	481	58,751	EFFIS
2021	659	150,552	EFFIS
2020	498	53,750	EFFIS
2019	336	36,887	EFFIS
2018	123	14,002	EFFIS
2017	781	140,214	EFFIS
2016	143	35,246	EFFIS
2015	63	7,773	EFFIS
2014	75	13,176	EFFIS
2013	66	15,776	EFFIS
2012	322	82,856	EFFIS
2011	233	36,997	EFFIS
2010	160	34,280	EFFIS
2009	109	54,809	EFFIS
2008	142	24,310	EFFIS
2007	451	153,481	EFFIS
2006	49	9,216	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026			181	1k	486	5k	56k	25k	4k	810			91,951	Castronovo di Sicilia 6,516 ha
2025				129	424	9k	34k	15k	4k	772	163		63,001	Custonaci 5,542 ha
2024			109	327		3k	12k	9k	852				25,551	Nuoro 1,170 ha
2023							49k	10k	15k	6k	254	174	80,318	Monreale 3,728 ha
2022	495	198	2k	612	586	7k	14k	10k	7k	126			41,777	Buseto Palizzolo 1,551 ha
2021			506	251	589	6k	61k	61k	2k	277			130,837	Montiferru 13,278 ha
2020		695			1k	1k	8k	20k	3k	2k			34,883	San Vito Lo Capo 3,057 ha
2019	1k	676	4k			1k	6k	9k	2k	374			24,133	Serravalle Sesia 1,903 ha
2018				149		388	6k	633	1k	526			9,390	Altavilla Milicia 1,649 ha
2017	2k			270	113	12k	54k	39k	248	7k			114,466	Bussoleno 3,534 ha
2016					1k	7k	15k	8k	332			163	31,306	Borore 5,048 ha