Cammarata fire, 14 July 2026 Cammarata
The fire started on 14 July 2026 in Cammarata, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 546 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 29th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 35 in Italy in 2026, of 231.
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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
- 546ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 9days
- 14 Jul 2026 – 22 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 14 Jul
- 2026
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 58 ha in 2019, 30 ha in 2020.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Rome boundary: geoBoundaries · ISTAT, National Institute of Statistics (CC BY 3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Cammarata where it started547 ha reached on 2 Oct2.8 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Agricultural areas86 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub8.8 %
- Coniferous forest5.5 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul | 37.8 °C | 15 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 15 Jul | 41.2 °C | 12 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 16 Jul | 40.8 °C | 11 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 17 Jul | 41.8 °C | 9 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 18 Jul | 42.2 °C | 7 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 19 Jul | 43.0 °C | 7 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 20 Jul | 42.7 °C | 7 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 21 Jul | 42.8 °C | 8 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 22 Jul | 41.5 °C | 9 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 67 |
| 23 Jul after | 39.5 °C | 15 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 24 Jul after | 32.2 °C | 23 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
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 13 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 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)
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cammarata fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 July 2026 to 22 July 2026 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 July 2026 to 14 July 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 546 hectares (5.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Cammarata (547 ha, 2.8 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 20 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 July 2026 to 14 July 2026. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.