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Nuraminis fire, June 2026 Nuraminis, Monastir

Out · last detection 14 Jun 2026, 12:41 UTC

The fire started on 14 June 2026 in Nuraminis, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 597 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 4th largest in Sud Sardegna since 2016 (of 37 with a page). Number 32 in Italy in 2026, of 232.

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Suggestions: Guamaggiore · 2024Uri · 2017Nuraminis · 2022Monastir · 2022

Burnt area
597ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 1day
14 Jun 2026 – 14 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
14 Jun
2026
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 45 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Average daily power
157MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jun14 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

14 Jun 2026 · 157 MW · 8

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
38km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 22 Jun.

This area had burned before

50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 91 ha in 2021, 252 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 297 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.4% of the area of London (6 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Nuraminis 2,305 inhabitants · 0.6 km from the centre where it started
    501 ha reached on 14 Jun
    11 %
  2. Monastir 4,438 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the centre
    98 ha reached on 14 Jun
    3.1 %

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 areas91 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.5 %

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 Jun 31.5 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Jun after 31.4 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
16 Jun after 30.9 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 Jun after 31.2 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Jun after 33.5 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Jun after 34.7 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Jun after 35.8 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
21 Jun after 36.4 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Jun after 35.7 °C 25 % 29 km/h 1.0 mm High 30

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 34.0, a minimum humidity of 26% and 29 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 20.

FWI at the start 34.0
Minimum humidity 26 %
Days without rain 29
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Guamaggiore fire, June 2024
510 ha 2 days FWI 35.3 Min. humidity 27 % 20 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

See its page Compare with this fire

What happened to them

1 day
median duration
154 ha
median area
5 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.0 mm
rain at the end (median; 8 of 20 had it)

It was 3.9 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 1 day, against 1 day.

Only 1 of its 20 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 12 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.0 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

1.0 mmfirst rain
22 Jun8 days after it ended
38km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 14 Jun, and on 22 Jun 1.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 8 of 20, with a median of 2.0 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jun 2026
After · 21 Jun 2026

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 16 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
12 Jun14 Jun16 Jun
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)

Detections table · 8Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Nuraminis fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (14 June 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 14 June 2026 (1 day from 14 June 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 597 hectares (6.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nuraminis (501 ha, 11 %); Monastir (98 ha, 3.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Nuraminis and came within 0.6 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 31.5 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 38 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 20. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 154 ha; 5 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 1 of its 20 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 12 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.0 mm.

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.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 8 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.