How long did the Mineo fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 August 2026 to 2 September 2026 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 August 2026 to 28 August 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 113 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Mineo (114 ha, 0.5 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 13.9 km of Mineo. 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 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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.

IT · Italy · 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-02

Mineo fire, August 2026 Mineo

Out · last detection 2 Sept 2026, 12:42 UTC

The fire started on 28 August 2026 in Mineo, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 113 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 66th largest in Catania since 2016 (of 76 with a page). Number 202 in Italy in 2026, of 231.

The power measured by the satellite is low (10.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 113ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 6days; 28 Aug 2026 – 2 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 28 Aug; 2026
Heat detections: 1; in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start: 36; High · FWI index
Energy released: 11MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Aug2 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high

38km/h · peak gust

28%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 12 Sept.

This area had burned before

18% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6 ha in 2021, 16 ha in 2022, 5 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 20 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Mineo 4,486 inhabitants · 13.9 km from the town where it started

114 ha reached on 2 Sept

0.5 %

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

Agricultural areas88 %
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)
28 Aug	37.7 °C	31 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
29 Aug	36.7 °C	28 %	31 km/h	1.1 mm	High 37
30 Aug	35.9 °C	32 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
31 Aug	33.7 °C	39 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
1 Sept	31.6 °C	39 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
2 Sept	32.6 °C	34 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
3 Sept after	33.3 °C	32 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
4 Sept after	31.9 °C	34 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
5 Sept after	32.9 °C	42 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
6 Sept after	34.3 °C	41 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
7 Sept after	33.3 °C	42 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
8 Sept after	32.9 °C	31 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
9 Sept after	30.1 °C	48 %	31 km/h	0.1 mm	High 30
10 Sept after	31.8 °C	45 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
11 Sept after	32.7 °C	38 %	32 km/h	0.1 mm	High 29
12 Sept after	31.1 °C	39 %	36 km/h	1.0 mm	High 22

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 21 Aug 2026

After · 9 Sept 2026

Before After

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 31 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 34 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak34 µg/m³

Days over the guideline6 days

PM1085 µg/m³

Optical depth0.70

WHO 15

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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 · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV 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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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mineo fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 August 2026 to 2 September 2026 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 August 2026 to 28 August 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 113 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Mineo (114 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 13.9 km of Mineo. 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 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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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Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned