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Wildfires in Acate

Acate, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 337 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 22° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 22° · 43 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 21° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 21° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 21° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 20° · 53 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

337
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
4
fires
103
km²

How many times has Acate burned?

Acate has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Gela fire, 20 July 2026, with 5 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
337
cumulative ha
20 Jul 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Italy →

Fires that entered Acate

  1. 5 ha Gela fire, 20 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 284 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3 ha Gela fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 109 ha Acate fire, July 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 220 ha Acate fire, July 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/ISTAT, National Institute of Statistics (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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