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Wildfires in Altofonte

Altofonte, Italy, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,975 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% 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. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 78 % · 33 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 75 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 22° · 55 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Low 19° · 62 % · 59 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 19° · 75 % · 51 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 18° · 68 % · 55 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Altofonte: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,975
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
10
fires
35
km²

How many times has Altofonte burned?

Altofonte has burned 10 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Altofonte fire, July 2026, with 108 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,975 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,428 hectares, 40 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
7
years with fire
1,975
cumulative ha
1,428
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 Altofonte

  1. 108 ha Altofonte fire, July 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 137 ha Altofonte fire, July 2025 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 246 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 39 ha Santa Cristina Gela fire, 21 September 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 112 ha Altofonte fire, 25 July 2023 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 137 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 311 ha Altofonte fire, 25 July 2023 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 311 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 306 ha Palermo fire, 21 July 2023 8.6% of the municipality · 1,663 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 195 ha Altofonte fire, August 2022 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 277 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 594 ha Altofonte fire, August 2020 where it started 17% of the municipality · 837 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 108 ha Altofonte fire, August 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 64 ha Altofonte fire, August 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 177 ha in total · 5 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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