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Wildfires in Arpaia

Arpaia, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 391 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 81% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Low 18° · 40 % · 41 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 56 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 60 % · 44 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 56 % · 50 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 53 % · 48 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

391
hectares burned
81 %
of its area
4
fires
5
km²

How many times has Arpaia burned?

Arpaia has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Airola fire, August 2025, with 114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 391 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 121 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
391
cumulative ha
121
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 Arpaia

  1. 114 ha Airola fire, August 2025 24% of the municipality · 291 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 93 ha Arpaia fire, August 2023 where it started 19% of the municipality · 129 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 108 ha Arpaia fire, August 2021 where it started 22% of the municipality · 360 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 77 ha Airola fire, August 2017 16% of the municipality · 128 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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