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Wildfires in Altamura

Altamura, Italy, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 2,239 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 18° · 50 % · 49 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 17° · 42 % · 44 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 17° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 19° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 69 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 53 % · 59 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 17° · 57 % · 36 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

2,239
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
9
fires
428
km²

How many times has Altamura burned?

Altamura has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Altamura fire, September 2026, with 111 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,239 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,048 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
9
fires
4
years with fire
2,239
cumulative ha
2,048
distinct ha

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 Altamura

  1. 111 ha Altamura fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 48 ha Gravina in Puglia fire, 25 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 347 ha Altamura fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 347 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 81 ha Altamura fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 7 ha Bitonto fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 279 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,238 ha Altamura fire, July 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 111 ha Altamura fire, July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 105 ha Altamura fire, June 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 176 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 192 ha Altamura fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 191 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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