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Wildfires in Buscemi

Buscemi, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 820 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 24 Low 21° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 19° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 51 % · 36 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

820
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
4
fires
52
km²

How many times has Buscemi burned?

Buscemi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Buscemi fire, July 2026, with 254 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 820 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 634 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
820
cumulative ha
634
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 Buscemi

  1. 254 ha Buscemi fire, July 2026 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 349 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 448 ha Buscemi fire, July 2021 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 570 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 117 ha Buscemi fire, June 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 118 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1 ha Palazzolo Acreide fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 277 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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