Enna fire, 11 July 2024 Enna
The fire started on 11 July 2024 in Enna, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 258 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 29th largest in Enna since 2016 (of 59 with a page). Number 28 in Italy in 2024, of 112.
- Burnt area
- 258ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 11 Jul 2024 – 11 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 11 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 8
- in a single hotspot: 22 MW
- Danger at start
- 34
- High · FWI index
- Natura 2000
- 30%
- of the perimeter is protected land
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 35 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
95% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 207 ha in 2017, 162 ha in 2020, 173 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 246 ha that had burned before.
- 207 ha Piazza Armerina fire, August 2017 2,946 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 173 ha Enna fire, July 2021 2,024 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 162 ha Enna fire, August 2020 204 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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258 ha reached on 8 Jul0.7 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Broadleaved forest30 %
- Other natural land27 %
- Agricultural areas24 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland13 %
- Coniferous forest6.1 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 30 %
- ZEPA + LIC Vallone Rossomanno ITA060010
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jul | 33.5 °C | 28 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 12 Jul after | 33.9 °C | 31 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 13 Jul after | 34.6 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 14 Jul after | 35.9 °C | 24 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 15 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 25 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 16 Jul after | 35.6 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 17 Jul after | 34.9 °C | 24 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 18 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 22 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 19 Jul after | 35.5 °C | 26 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 20 Jul after | 34.4 °C | 25 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 21 Jul after | 35.3 °C | 20 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
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 9 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 17 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 · 8Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Enna fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 11 July 2024 and 11 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 258 hectares (2.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Enna (258 ha, 0.7 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.3 km of Enna. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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
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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.