Naro fire, July 2025 Palma di Montechiaro, Camastra, Naro
The fire started on 24 July 2025 in Naro, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 385 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
It is the 48th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 38 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
The power measured by the satellite is low (0.4 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
- 385ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 24 Jul 2025 – 25 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 4
- municipalities
- Started on
- 24 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 1
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Danger at start
- 43
- Very high · FWI index
Where it burned
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
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 215 ha in 2016, 83 ha in 2017, 180 ha in 2018, 173 ha in 2019, 68 ha in 2020, 200 ha in 2021, 251 ha in 2022, 213 ha in 2023, 306 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 359 ha that had burned before.
- 306 ha Palma di Montechiaro fire, July 2024 907 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 233 ha Camastra fire, June 2022 351 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 204 ha Palma di Montechiaro fire, July 2023 338 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 181 ha Naro fire, June 2021 275 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 173 ha Naro fire, July 2019 243 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 143 ha Naro fire, July 2018 195 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 99 ha Palma di Montechiaro fire, July 2016 113 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 83 ha Licata fire, August 2017 326 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Palma di Montechiaro 21,373 inhabitants · 2.3 km from the town169 ha reached on 24 Jul2.2 %
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Camastra 2,010 inhabitants · 1.8 km from the town122 ha7.5 %
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94 ha0.4 %
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Licata 34,287 inhabitants · 17.3 km from the town1 ha0.0 %
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 areas56 %
- Other natural land44 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jul | 37.8 °C | 26 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 25 Jul | 39.1 °C | 22 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 26 Jul after | 36.2 °C | 25 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 27 Jul after | 31.5 °C | 40 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 28 Jul after | 29.3 °C | 43 % | 61 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 29 Jul after | 28.8 °C | 42 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Jul after | 28.7 °C | 50 % | 47 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 34 |
| 31 Jul after | 29.3 °C | 39 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 1 Aug after | 29.9 °C | 36 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 2 Aug after | 29.4 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 3 Aug after | 31.6 °C | 44 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 4 Aug after | 31.6 °C | 31 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
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 26 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 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 · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,776 haRavanusaJuly 2023 · 3 days · 20 km away
- 3,558 haButeraJuly 2026 · 4 days · 31 km away
- 1,330 haSanta ElisabettaJuly 2026 · 3 days · 33 km away
- 1,409 haSuteraJuly 2026 · 1 day · 36 km away
- 1,370 haCattolica EracleaJune 2025 · 7 days · 40 km away
- 1,153 haSant'Angelo Muxaro29 June 2025 · 3 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Naro fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 24 July 2025 and 25 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 385 hectares (3.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 4 municipalities: Palma di Montechiaro (169 ha, 2.2 %); Camastra (122 ha, 7.5 %); Naro (94 ha, 0.4 %); Licata (1 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.8 km of Camastra. 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 39.1 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.
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.