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Wildfires in Belcastro

Belcastro, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 79 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% 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. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 78 % · 17 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 14° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 67 % · 28 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

79
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
3
fires
53
km²

How many times has Belcastro burned?

Belcastro has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Mesoraca fire, August 2019, with 2 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
79
cumulative ha
23 Aug 2019
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 Belcastro

  1. 2 ha Mesoraca fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 75 ha Petronà fire, July 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3 ha Mesoraca fire, July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 283 ha in total · 8 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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