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Agrigento fire, 24 July 2026 Agrigento

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2026, 11:51 UTC

The fire started on 24 July 2026 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 108 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 269th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 212 in Italy in 2026, of 231.

The power measured by the satellite is low (11.6 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
108ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
24 Jul 2026 – 24 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
24 Jul
2026
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 12 MW
Danger at start
68
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
23MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Jul24 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

24

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
35km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

67% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 30 ha in 2017, 34 ha in 2019, 44 ha in 2021, 12 ha in 2022, 26 ha in 2023, 37 ha in 2024, 15 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 72 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 3.1 km from the town where it started
    109 ha reached on 24 Jul
    0.4 %

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 areas50 %
  • Other natural land50 %

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)
24 Jul 38.5 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
25 Jul after 29.4 °C 54 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jul after 30.0 °C 47 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
27 Jul after 32.3 °C 41 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
28 Jul after 31.1 °C 60 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
29 Jul after 31.8 °C 49 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
30 Jul after 31.8 °C 41 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
31 Jul after 35.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
1 Aug after 38.0 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
2 Aug after 33.5 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
3 Aug after 32.2 °C 48 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Jul 2026
After · 31 Jul 2026

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 24 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 65 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak65 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10104 µg/m³
Optical depth0.73
222324252627
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 · 2Every 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 24 July 2026 and 24 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 108 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Agrigento (109 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.1 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 38.5 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 68, class Extreme.
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.