Agrigento fire, 7 June 2025 Naro, Favara, Agrigento
The fire started on 7 June 2025 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 334 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 65th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 49 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
The power measured by the satellite is low (7.8 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 334ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 7 Jun 2025 – 8 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 7 Jun
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 10
- in a single hotspot: 8 MW
- Danger at start
- 28
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
76% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 88 ha in 2017, 61 ha in 2018, 33 ha in 2019, 118 ha in 2020, 21 ha in 2022, 6 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 253 ha that had burned before.
- 92 ha Naro fire, July 2020 201 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 88 ha Favara fire, June 2017 316 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 7 ha Naro fire, July 2022 154 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4 ha Naro fire, July 2023 344 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2 ha Agrigento fire, July 2023 103 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Naro 7,007 inhabitants · 7.0 km from the town221 ha reached on 10 Jun1.1 %
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Favara 31,593 inhabitants · 4.6 km from the town67 ha reached on 12 Jun0.8 %
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47 ha reached on 8 Jun0.2 %
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
- Agricultural areas84 %
- Other natural land16 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jun | 31.1 °C | 24 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 8 Jun | 31.4 °C | 20 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 9 Jun after | 32.6 °C | 28 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 10 Jun after | 29.9 °C | 34 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 11 Jun after | 30.2 °C | 39 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 12 Jun after | 30.6 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 13 Jun after | 31.6 °C | 28 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 14 Jun after | 30.8 °C | 27 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 15 Jun after | 29.9 °C | 38 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 16 Jun after | 33.1 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 17 Jun after | 31.4 °C | 30 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 18 Jun after | 28.2 °C | 44 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 9 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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)
Detections table · 10Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Agrigento fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 7 June 2025 and 8 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 334 hectares (3.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Naro (221 ha, 1.1 %); Favara (67 ha, 0.8 %); Agrigento (47 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.6 km of Favara. 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 31.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.