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Wildfires in Africo

Africo, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 544 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 88 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 79 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 69 % · 29 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

544
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
2
fires
54
km²

How many times has Africo burned?

Africo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Ferruzzano fire, July 2023, with 0 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
544
cumulative ha
25 Jul 2023
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 Africo

  1. 0 ha Ferruzzano fire, July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 544 ha Bagaladi fire, 4 August 2021 10% of the municipality · 7,096 ha in total · 6 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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