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Resuttano fire, 17 July 2026 Resuttano, Petralia Sottana

Out · last detection 17 Jul 2026, 12:21 UTC

The fire started on 17 July 2026 in Resuttano, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 380 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 23th largest in Caltanissetta since 2016 (of 149 with a page). Number 47 in Italy in 2026, of 231.

Burnt area
380ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
17 Jul 2026 – 17 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
17 Jul
2026
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
146MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Jul17 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

17

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

The weather it burned in

41°high
25km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

69% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 169 ha in 2019, 24 ha in 2020, 96 ha in 2021, 67 ha in 2022, 73 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 263 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Resuttano 1,752 inhabitants · 1.0 km from the town where it started
    278 ha reached on 17 Jul
    7.2 %
  2. Petralia Sottana
    102 ha
    0.6 %

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

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Agricultural areas47 %

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)
17 Jul 41.2 °C 8 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Jul after 41.7 °C 7 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
19 Jul after 42.0 °C 8 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
20 Jul after 42.0 °C 8 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
21 Jul after 41.8 °C 8 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
22 Jul after 40.5 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
23 Jul after 39.5 °C 15 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
24 Jul after 32.0 °C 19 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
25 Jul after 34.2 °C 14 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
26 Jul after 32.8 °C 31 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Jul after 35.0 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Jul 2026
After · 24 Jul 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 19 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1067 µg/m³
Optical depth0.47
151617181920
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 · 7Every 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 Resuttano fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 17 July 2026 and 17 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 380 hectares (3.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Resuttano (278 ha, 7.2 %); Petralia Sottana (102 ha, 0.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.0 km of Resuttano. 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 41.2 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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.