Cammarata fire, 31 July 2026 Casteltermini, Cammarata, San Giovanni Gemini
The fire started on 31 July 2026 in Cammarata, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 532 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 31th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 36 in Italy in 2026, of 231.
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- Burnt area
- 532ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- ≈ 2days
- 31 Jul 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 31 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 18
- in a single hotspot: 34 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 144MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 2 Aug.
This area had burned before
55% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 164 ha in 2016, 25 ha in 2017, 56 ha in 2019, 58 ha in 2020, 151 ha in 2021, 156 ha in 2023, 27 ha in 2024, 89 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 295 ha that had burned before.
- 138 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2016 208 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 127 ha Casteltermini fire, September 2023 235 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 66 ha Casteltermini fire, September 2025 271 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 58 ha Cammarata fire, September 2021 303 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 56 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2019 149 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 26 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2016 119 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 11 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2024 181 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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Casteltermini 7,269 inhabitants · 0.8 km from the centre266 ha reached on 1 Aug2.7 %
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Cammarata where it started246 ha reached on 31 Jul1.3 %
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San Giovanni Gemini 7,517 inhabitants · 3.3 km from the centre21 ha0.8 %
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
- Other natural land45 %
- Agricultural areas38 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub17 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 1.6 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Jul | 34.3 °C | 33 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 1 Aug | 34.8 °C | 30 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 2 Aug after | 34.7 °C | 35 % | 30 km/h | 1.7 mm | Moderate 20 |
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 3 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 42 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.4 times the WHO daily 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 · 18Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,154 haCastronovo di Sicilia19 July 2026 · 4 days · 10 km away
- 6,516 haCastronovo di Sicilia20 July 2026 · 5 days · 13 km away
- 2,265 haBivonaJuly 2026 · 2 days · 22 km away
- 2,265 haCampofelice di FitaliaJuly 2026 · 2 days · 28 km away
- 2,862 haAliminusaJuly 2023 · 3 days · 37 km away
- 2,999 haResuttano21 July 2026 · 3 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cammarata fire last?
- The official perimeter only gives the start date (31 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 1 August 2026 (2 days from 31 July 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 532 hectares (5.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Casteltermini (266 ha, 2.7 %); Cammarata (246 ha, 1.3 %); San Giovanni Gemini (21 ha, 0.8 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 0.8 km of the centre of Casteltermini, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 29 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 31 July 2026 → 1 August 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 18 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.