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Tornareccio fire, July 2026 Tornareccio, Atessa, Carpineto Sinello

Out · last detection 7 Jul 2026, 12:10 UTC

The fire started on 6 July 2026 in Tornareccio, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 482 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

Number 38 in Italy in 2026, of 231.

Burnt area
482ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
6 Jul 2026 – 6 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
6 Jul
2026
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 58 MW
Energy released
256MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Jul 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jul6 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

67

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

This area had burned before

64% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 310 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Tornareccio 1,650 inhabitants · 1.1 km from the town where it started
    461 ha reached on 6 Jul
    17 %
  2. Atessa 10,338 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town
    20 ha reached on 8 Jul
    0.2 %
  3. Carpineto Sinello 480 inhabitants · 4.0 km from the town
    1 ha reached on 8 Jul
    0.0 %

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 areas87 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland13 %

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)
9 Jul after 30.4 °C 35 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
10 Jul after 32.8 °C 20 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
11 Jul after 35.0 °C 20 % 19 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 17
12 Jul after 30.5 °C 35 % 22 km/h 3.5 mm Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Jun 2026
After · 13 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 9 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1014 µg/m³
Optical depth0.65
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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 · 22Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tornareccio fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 July 2026 and 6 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 482 hectares (4.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Tornareccio (461 ha, 17 %); Atessa (20 ha, 0.2 %); Carpineto Sinello (1 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.1 km of Tornareccio. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
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.