Caulonia fire, August 2016 Italy
The fire started on 2 August 2016 in Caulonia, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 200 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 44th largest in Reggio di Calabria since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 42 in Italy in 2016, of 78.
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- Burnt area
- 200ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 2 Aug 2016 – 2 Aug 2016
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- municipalities
- Started on
- 2 Aug
- 2016
- Heat detections
- 1
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 3MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
2 Aug 2016 · 3 MW · 1
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
What burned
- Agricultural areas48 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub43 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland5.5 %
- Other natural land4.0 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
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.
Detections table · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 447 haCauloniaAugust 2021 · 3 days · 4 km away
- 1,549 haRoccella Ionica21 July 2025 · 5 days · 7 km away
- 848 haSan Giovanni di GeraceAugust 2021 · 6 days · 12 km away
- 1,652 haMammolaAugust 2021 · 8 days · 16 km away
- 581 haBadolatoAugust 2021 · 13 days · 19 km away
- 549 haIsca sullo IonioAugust 2021 · 4 days · 22 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Caulonia fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 August 2016 and 2 August 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 200 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- 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 · 3 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 31 July 2016 → 2 August 2016.
- Name: Placanica → Caulonia.
- Start date: 2 August 2016 → 31 July 2016.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
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.