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Strongoli fire, October 2026 Crotone, Strongoli, Cirò Marina

Out · last detection 5 Oct 2026, 12:44 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 2 October 2026 in Strongoli, Italy. It was active for 4 days, with 13 heat detections and an area with fire of about 168 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 6 municipalities.

The power measured by the satellite is low (21.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Area with fire
≈ 168ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
4days
2 Oct 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
6
municipalities
Started on
2 Oct
2026
Heat detections
13
in a single hotspot: 21 MW
Danger at start
38
High · FWI index
Average daily power
28MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Oct5 Oct
5 Oct 2026

How it evolved, day by day

2 Oct 2026 · 55 MW · 4 3 Oct 2026 · 19 MW · 7 4 Oct 2026 · 11 MW · 2 5 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0
2 Oct 3 Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct

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

The weather it burned in

27°high
59km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

What happened to each town

  1. Crotone 58,445 inhabitants · 6.1 km from the centre
    98 ha reached on 3 Oct
    0.5 %
  2. Strongoli 6,137 inhabitants · 2.7 km from the centre where it started
    84 ha reached on 2 Oct
    1.0 %
  3. Cirò Marina 14,030 inhabitants · 6.1 km from the centre
    0 ha reached on 3 Oct
    0.0 %
  4. Carfizzi 519 inhabitants · 5.6 km from the centre
    0 ha reached on 5 Oct
    0.0 %
  5. Rocca di Neto 5,318 inhabitants · 1.9 km from the centre
    0 ha reached on 3 Oct
    0.0 %
  6. Casabona 2,312 inhabitants · 7.0 km from the centre
    0 ha
    0.0 %

Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. 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.

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)
22 Sept 26.8 °C 34 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 Sept 23.2 °C 40 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Sept 24.4 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
25 Sept 23.8 °C 50 % 36 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 17
26 Sept 23.4 °C 45 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Sept 24.3 °C 48 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
28 Sept 25.4 °C 44 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
29 Sept 25.9 °C 42 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
30 Sept 26.0 °C 40 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
1 Oct 26.0 °C 35 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
2 Oct 25.5 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Oct 25.2 °C 40 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Sept 2026
After · 12 Oct 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 2 October 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
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
202122232425262728293012
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 · 13Every 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 Strongoli fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 2 October 2026 to 5 October 2026 (4 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 168 hectares with fire (1.7 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 6 municipalities: Crotone (98 ha, 0.5 %); Strongoli (84 ha, 1.0 %); Cirò Marina (0 ha, 0.0 %); Carfizzi (0 ha, 0.0 %); Rocca di Neto (0 ha, 0.0 %); Casabona (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Is the Strongoli fire still active?
No fire detections since 5 Oct 2026, 12:44 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 1.9 km of the centre of Rocca di Neto, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 26.8 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 59 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 · 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.

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How we know this
  • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 168 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
  • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 13 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • 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.