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Agrigento fire, 6 June 2025 Agrigento, Palma di Montechiaro

Out · last measured on 7 Jun 2025

The fire started on 6 June 2025 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 104 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 277th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 203 in Italy in 2025, of 216.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
104ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
6 Jun 2025 – 7 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
6 Jun
2025
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

33°high
35km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

82% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 75 ha in 2017, 36 ha in 2019, 18 ha in 2020, 35 ha in 2021, 26 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 85 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 15.6 km from the town where it started
    104 ha
    0.4 %
  2. Palma di Montechiaro 21,373 inhabitants · 5.5 km from the town
    0 ha
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land65 %
  • Agricultural areas35 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Jun 32.2 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Jun 32.9 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
8 Jun after 33.2 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Jun after 34.4 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Jun after 31.7 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
11 Jun after 32.0 °C 39 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
12 Jun after 32.4 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Jun after 33.3 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Jun after 32.6 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Jun after 31.6 °C 38 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Jun after 34.8 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
17 Jun after 33.2 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 30 May 2025
After · 14 Jun 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 9 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak19 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1085 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
45678910
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Agrigento fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 June 2025 and 7 June 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 104 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Agrigento (104 ha, 0.4 %); Palma di Montechiaro (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.5 km of Palma di Montechiaro. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Italy (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112 · 1515

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.