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Mineo fire, 14 July 2025 Mineo

Out · last measured on 14 Jul 2025

The fire started on 14 July 2025 in Mineo, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 178 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 39th largest in Catania since 2016 (of 76 with a page). Number 114 in Italy in 2025, of 216.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
178ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Jul 2025 – 14 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Jul
2025
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

37°high
38km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

21% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 37 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Mineo 4,486 inhabitants · 7.9 km from the centre where it started
    178 ha
    0.7 %

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 areas59 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub29 %
  • Other natural land12 %

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 Jul 36.9 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
15 Jul after 35.5 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jul after 35.5 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 Jul after 34.5 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Jul after 31.6 °C 52 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Jul after 34.2 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
20 Jul after 36.4 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jul after 38.1 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Jul after 42.1 °C 21 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Jul after 38.2 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
24 Jul after 39.0 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 7 Jul 2025
After · 21 Jul 2025

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 · Copernicus

On 17 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
121314151617
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mineo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 July 2025 and 14 July 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 178 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mineo (178 ha, 0.7 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Mineo and came within 7.9 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 36.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, 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 ›

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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. No 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.