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Agrigento fire, July 2025 Agrigento

Out · last detection 16 Jul 2025, 11:36 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2025 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 129 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 220th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 159 in Italy in 2025, of 216.

The power measured by the satellite is low (4.8 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
129ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
16 Jul 2025 – 16 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
16 Jul
2025
Heat detections
6
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index
Energy released
23MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul16 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

16

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

35°high
37km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

47% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5 ha in 2022, 56 ha in 2023, 21 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 61 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 14.3 km from the town where it started
    129 ha reached on 16 Jul
    0.5 %

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 areas53 %
  • Other natural land47 %

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)
16 Jul 35.3 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Jul after 33.0 °C 50 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Jul after 32.5 °C 51 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
19 Jul after 31.9 °C 58 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jul after 32.8 °C 47 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
21 Jul after 37.2 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
22 Jul after 38.7 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 Jul after 37.5 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Jul after 37.8 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jul after 38.7 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
26 Jul after 35.6 °C 36 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2025
After · 23 Jul 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 19 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.22
141516171819
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)

Detections table · 6Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Agrigento fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2025 and 16 July 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 129 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Agrigento (129 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 14.3 km of Agrigento. 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 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.