Burned area
satellite only528ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 29 July 2025
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IT · Italy · –
Cianciana fire, July 2025 Cianciana, Bivona
Out · last detection 26 Jul 2025, 00:27 UTC
The fire started on 25 July 2025 in Cianciana, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 528 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 32th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 21 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
The power measured by the satellite is low (3.8 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
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25 Jul 2025 to 26 Jul 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 26 Jul 2025, 00:27 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 only25 Jul 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
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- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 25 Jul 2025
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Hotspots
satellite only8
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 4 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 25 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 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 only20MW
Total radiative power on 26 July 2025; hotspots that day: 8.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 26 Jul 2025
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Danger at the start
model46.9FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 34.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 25 Jul 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
model38.9°C · 23% RH
High of 38.9 °C and minimum humidity of 23% on 25 July 2025; gusts of 39 km/h on 26 July 2025.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 25 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 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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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
- 528 ha
- Dates
- 25 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- Name
- Cianciana
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/cianciana-2025-07?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 cianciana-2025-07.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 38.9 | 26.8 | 23 | 18.1 | 34.6 | 0 | 46.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-07-26 | 8 | 20 | 35.9 | 24.7 | 36 | 19.1 | 38.9 | 0 | 43.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 30.7 | 22.1 | 43 | 19.1 | 47.9 | 0 | 36 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 29.3 | 20.5 | 48 | 25.6 | 56.2 | 0 | 37.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 28.9 | 20.2 | 45 | 23.1 | 52.2 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 19.3 | 55 | 15.9 | 36.7 | 0.8 | 20 | moderado | 0 |
| 2025-07-31 | 0 | 0 | 29.2 | 19.6 | 44 | 16.7 | 43.6 | 0 | 26.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-08-01 | 0 | 0 | 30.5 | 18.9 | 36 | 14.1 | 33.8 | 0 | 29.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-08-02 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 | 18.9 | 43 | 17.6 | 37.8 | 0 | 32 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 19.1 | 44 | 16.9 | 42.5 | 0 | 31.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 | 19 | 37 | 18.4 | 45 | 0 | 33 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-08-05 | 0 | 0 | 29.7 | 19.7 | 43 | 17.1 | 40.7 | 0 | 32.1 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 528ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 25 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 25 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 8
- in a single hotspot: 4 MW
- Danger at start
- 47
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 20MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
25 Jul26 Jul
How it evolved, day by day
26 Jul 2025 · 20 MW · 8
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
39°high
39km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity
It had gone 34 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
38% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 15 ha in 2018, 116 ha in 2020, 55 ha in 2021, 99 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 201 ha that had burned before.
- 109 ha Bivona fire, July 2020 112 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 99 ha Bivona fire, June 2024 110 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 55 ha Cianciana fire, July 2021 1,563 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 15 ha Bivona fire, August 2018 135 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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303 ha reached on 26 Jul8.0 %
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226 ha2.6 %
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 areas91 %
- Other natural land4.2 %
- Mixed forest2.8 %
- Coniferous forest2.1 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area0.37 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.37 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jul | 38.9 °C | 23 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 26 Jul | 35.9 °C | 36 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 27 Jul after | 30.7 °C | 43 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Jul after | 29.3 °C | 48 % | 56 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 29 Jul after | 28.9 °C | 45 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 30 Jul after | 28.6 °C | 55 % | 37 km/h | 0.8 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 31 Jul after | 29.2 °C | 44 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 1 Aug after | 30.5 °C | 36 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 2 Aug after | 30.4 °C | 43 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 3 Aug after | 32.0 °C | 44 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 4 Aug after | 30.4 °C | 37 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 5 Aug after | 29.7 °C | 43 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 46.9, a minimum humidity of 23% and 34 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
46.9
Minimum humidity
23 %
Days without rain
34
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Cianciana fire, July 2025
528 ha
2 days
FWI 46.9
Min. humidity 23 %
Casteltermini fire, August 2019
149 ha
1 day
FWI 44.3
Min. humidity 23 %
21 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Avola fire, June 2017
108 ha
2 days
FWI 47.1
Min. humidity 23 %
164 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Naro fire, July 2023
160 ha
1 day
FWI 46.7
Min. humidity 21 %
55 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Avola fire, June 2017
447 ha
2 days
FWI 46.1
Min. humidity 23 %
160 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Grammichele fire, June 2022
351 ha
4 days
FWI 46.6
Min. humidity 22 %
113 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 7 Jul.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 360 ha
- median area
- 14 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.4 mm
- rain at the end (median; 4 of 21 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (528 ha against a median of 360 ha) and lasted 2 days, against 2 days.
In 17 of 21, 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
39km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 26 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 4 of 21, 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 · 18 Jul 2025
After · 2 Aug 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 26 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1035 µg/m³
Optical depth0.64
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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 · 8Every 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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Other fires nearby
- 1,563 haCiancianaJuly 2021 · 3 days · 4 km away
- 2,265 haBivonaJuly 2026 · 2 days · 6 km away
- 6,516 haCastronovo di Sicilia20 July 2026 · 5 days · 13 km away
- 2,154 haCastronovo di Sicilia19 July 2026 · 4 days · 24 km away
- 1,694 haCampofioritoAugust 2017 · 3 days · 27 km away
- 1,409 haSuteraJuly 2026 · 3 days · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cianciana fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 25 July 2025 and 26 July 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 528 hectares (5.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cianciana (303 ha, 8.0 %); Bivona (226 ha, 2.6 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Cianciana and came within 1.6 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 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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: 21. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 360 ha; 14 % went past 1,000 ha. In 17 of 21, 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
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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. 8 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.