Sindia fire, July 2025 Sindia
The fire started on 13 July 2025 in Sindia, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 190 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 22th largest in Nuoro since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 108 in Italy in 2025, of 216.
The power measured by the satellite is low (11.0 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
- 190ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 13 Jul 2025 – 13 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 13 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 10
- in a single hotspot: 11 MW
- Danger at start
- 23
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 93MW
- sum of detected power
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 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
79% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 89 ha in 2019, 118 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 151 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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191 ha reached on 13 Jul3.2 %
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 areas95 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub4.7 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- LIC Altopiano di Campeda ITB021101
- ZEPA Piana di Semestene, Bonorva, Macomer e Bortigali ITB023050
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to CFVA Sardegna, this fire started on 13 July 2025 and burned 323 ha (the satellite measured 190 ha). The two figures differ a lot, so these may not be exactly the same fire: take them as nearby records.
- Sindia Muristevene 13 July 2025 323 ha
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Corpo Forestale e di Vigilanza Ambientale: perimetri delle aree percorse dal fuoco (CC BY 4.0). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul | 28.4 °C | 48 % | 42 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 23 |
| 14 Jul after | 30.9 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 15 Jul after | 33.7 °C | 29 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 16 Jul after | 28.3 °C | 44 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 17 Jul after | 27.9 °C | 50 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 18 Jul after | 31.6 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 19 Jul after | 35.7 °C | 23 % | 42 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 44 |
| 20 Jul after | 30.8 °C | 36 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 21 Jul after | 32.7 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 22 Jul after | 28.3 °C | 33 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 23 Jul after | 32.3 °C | 27 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
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 16 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 9 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 · 10Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Sindia fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 13 July 2025 and 13 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 190 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Sindia (191 ha, 3.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.1 km of Sindia. 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 28.4 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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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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.