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Wildfires in Burgio

Burgio, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 746 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 11 Very low 24° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 23° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 22° · 65 % · 44 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Low 21° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 20° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 21° · 81 % · 37 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 74 % · 40 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 Burgio: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

746
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
4
fires
42
km²

How many times has Burgio burned?

Burgio has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Burgio fire, August 2023, with 166 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 746 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 658 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
746
cumulative ha
658
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 Burgio

  1. 166 ha Burgio fire, August 2023 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 165 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 259 ha Burgio fire, July 2021 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 258 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 106 ha Burgio fire, May 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 215 ha Burgio fire, July 2020 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 3 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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