Burned area
satellite only847ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 19 September 2025
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IT · Italy · –
Casteltermini fire, 14 September 2025 Casteltermini, San Biagio Platani
Out · last detection 17 Sept 2025, 11:55 UTC
The fire started on 14 September 2025 in Casteltermini, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 847 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 12th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 9 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
The power measured by the satellite is low (19.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only4days
14 Sept 2025 to 17 Sept 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 17 Sept 2025, 11:55 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only14 Sept 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 14 Sept 2025
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Hotspots
satellite only30
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 19 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 14 Sept 2025 – 17 Sept 2025
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only169MW
Total radiative power on 17 September 2025; hotspots that day: 25.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 17 Sept 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model24.9FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 10.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 14 Sept 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model32.1°C · 37% RH
High of 32.1 °C and minimum humidity of 37% on 17 September 2025; gusts of 35 km/h on 17 September 2025.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 14 Sept 2025 – 17 Sept 2025
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 847 ha
- Dates
- 14 Sept 2025 – 17 Sept 2025
- Name
- Casteltermini
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/casteltermini-2025-09-2?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire casteltermini-2025-09-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-14 | 2 | 2 | 30.3 | 18.3 | 51 | 12.5 | 31.7 | 0 | 24.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 20 | 32 | 9.5 | 31 | 0 | 27.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 3 | 39 | 31 | 19.2 | 46 | 11.9 | 32 | 0 | 27.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-17 | 25 | 169 | 32.1 | 19.8 | 37 | 13.8 | 34.9 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-18 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 19.6 | 41 | 14.7 | 35.6 | 0.5 | 29.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-19 | 0 | 0 | 28.7 | 19.5 | 51 | 13 | 33.8 | 0.1 | 25.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-20 | 0 | 0 | 29.3 | 18.9 | 49 | 13.1 | 32 | 0 | 25.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 28.4 | 18 | 42 | 15.3 | 35.6 | 0 | 27.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 27.8 | 17.6 | 52 | 16.7 | 37.1 | 0 | 26.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 26.1 | 19.1 | 69 | 16.3 | 30.2 | 5.2 | 4 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 847ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 14 Sept 2025 – 17 Sept 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 14 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 30
- in a single hotspot: 19 MW
- Danger at start
- 25
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 70MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
14 Sept17 Sept
17 Sept 2025
How it evolved, day by day
14 Sept
16 Sept
17 Sept
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
32°high
35km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity
It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.2 mm on 23 Sept.
This area had burned before
68% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 195 ha in 2018, 87 ha in 2019, 80 ha in 2020, 312 ha in 2021, 11 ha in 2022, 123 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 578 ha that had burned before.
- 312 ha Casteltermini fire, July 2021 617 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 178 ha Casteltermini fire, July 2018 227 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 94 ha San Biagio Platani fire, September 2023 131 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 87 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2019 147 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 74 ha Casteltermini fire, August 2020 173 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 7 ha Casteltermini fire, September 2020 223 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4 ha San Biagio Platani fire, September 2022 158 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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847 ha reached on 14 Sept8.5 %
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San Biagio Platani 2,860 inhabitants · 5.8 km from the centre2 ha reached on 17 Sept0.1 %
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 land29 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub26 %
- Agricultural areas23 %
- Mixed forest16 %
- Coniferous forest7.0 %
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 Sept | 30.3 °C | 51 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 15 Sept | 31.7 °C | 32 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 16 Sept | 31.0 °C | 46 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 17 Sept | 32.1 °C | 37 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 18 Sept after | 30.0 °C | 41 % | 36 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 30 |
| 19 Sept after | 28.7 °C | 51 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 25 |
| 20 Sept after | 29.3 °C | 49 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 21 Sept after | 28.4 °C | 42 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 22 Sept after | 27.8 °C | 52 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 23 Sept after | 26.1 °C | 69 % | 30 km/h | 5.2 mm | Very low 4 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 24.9, a minimum humidity of 51% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 18.
FWI at the start
24.9
Minimum humidity
51 %
Days without rain
10
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Casteltermini fire, 14 September 2025
847 ha
4 days
FWI 24.9
Min. humidity 51 %
San Biagio Platani fire, September 2023
131 ha
2 days
FWI 24.7
Min. humidity 49 %
1 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Campofranco fire, August 2021
119 ha
3 days
FWI 25.1
Min. humidity 50 %
9 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 4 Sept.
Racalmuto fire, July 2019
164 ha
1 day
FWI 23.7
Min. humidity 51 %
18 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Gagliano Castelferrato fire, July 2025
163 ha
1 day
FWI 23.7
Min. humidity 49 %
85 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 24 Jul.
Furci Siculo fire, July 2017
143 ha
1 day
FWI 22.9
Min. humidity 51 %
163 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 160 ha
- median area
- 0 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.4 mm
- rain at the end (median; 10 of 18 had it)
It was 5.3 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 4 days, against 2 days.
None of its 18 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 8 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.4 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
5.2 mmfirst rain
23 Sept6 days after it ended
35km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 17 Sept, and on 23 Sept 5.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 10 of 18, with a median of 1.4 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 7 Sept 2025
After · 24 Sept 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 19 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1041 µg/m³
Optical depth0.17
WHO 15
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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 · 30Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Casteltermini fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 September 2025 to 17 September 2025 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 September 2025 to 17 September 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 847 hectares (8.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Casteltermini (847 ha, 8.5 %); San Biagio Platani (2 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Casteltermini and came within 2.0 km of its centre. 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 32.1 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 35 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 18. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 160 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 18 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 8 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.4 mm.
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
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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 16 September 2025 to 17 September 2025. 30 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.