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Wildfires in Bompensiere

Bompensiere, Italy, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 62% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 Moderate 19° · 43 % · 44 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 19° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 19° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 50 % · 50 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 51 % · 25 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

1,246
hectares burned
62 %
of its area
14
fires
20
km²

How many times has Bompensiere burned?

Bompensiere has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Milena fire, 19 July 2025, with 5 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,246 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 748 hectares, 37 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
14
fires
8
years with fire
1,246
cumulative ha
748
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 Bompensiere

  1. 5 ha Milena fire, 19 July 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 312 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 63 ha Racalmuto fire, July 2025 3.2% of the municipality · 279 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 60 ha Sutera fire, July 2025 3.0% of the municipality · 554 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 225 ha Bompensiere fire, September 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 276 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1 ha Milena fire, July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 215 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 26 ha Sutera fire, 7 September 2022 1.3% of the municipality · 413 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4 ha Sutera fire, August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 283 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2021 where it started 14% of the municipality · 384 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 26 ha Milena fire, July 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 407 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 38 ha Montedoro fire, July 2020 1.9% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 124 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2019 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 153 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2017 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 14 ha Sutera fire, August 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 486 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 225 ha Bompensiere fire, June 2016 where it started 11% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 1 day

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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