Dualchi fire, June 2025 Dualchi, Aidomaggiore, Sedilo
The fire started on 9 June 2025 in Dualchi, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 439 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
It is the 12th largest in Nuoro since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 31 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
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- Burnt area
- 439ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 9 Jun 2025 – 9 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 4
- municipalities
- Started on
- 9 Jun
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 7
- in a single hotspot: 49 MW
- Danger at start
- 31
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 184MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
9 Jun 2025 · 184 MW · 7
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 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 321 ha in 2016.
What happened to each town
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298 ha reached on 9 Jun13 %
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Aidomaggiore 394 inhabitants · 3.8 km from the centre62 ha1.5 %
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Sedilo 1,956 inhabitants · 3.4 km from the centre54 ha0.8 %
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Noragugume 278 inhabitants · 1.3 km from the centre25 ha1.0 %
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 areas89 %
- Other natural land11 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA Altopiano di Abbasanta ITB023051
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to CFVA Sardegna, this fire started on 9 June 2025 and burned 405 ha (the satellite measured 439 ha).
- Dualchi Su Ghercu 9 June 2025 405 ha
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Corpo Forestale e di Vigilanza Ambientale: perimetri delle aree percorse dal fuoco (CC BY 4.0). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Jun | 30.2 °C | 26 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 10 Jun after | 31.1 °C | 25 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Jun after | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 12 Jun after | 34.8 °C | 23 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 13 Jun after | 36.3 °C | 19 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 14 Jun after | 36.9 °C | 17 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 15 Jun after | 38.3 °C | 12 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 16 Jun after | 33.2 °C | 17 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 17 Jun after | 31.5 °C | 37 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 18 Jun after | 29.9 °C | 42 % | 42 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 31 |
| 19 Jun after | 32.5 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 30 |
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 7 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 16 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)
Detections table · 7Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dualchi fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 9 June 2025 and 9 June 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 439 hectares (4.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 4 municipalities: Dualchi (298 ha, 13 %); Aidomaggiore (62 ha, 1.5 %); Sedilo (54 ha, 0.8 %); Noragugume (25 ha, 1.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Dualchi and came within 1.1 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 30.2 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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 from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 7 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with CFVA Sardegna: 405 official ha against 439 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
- 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.