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Wildfires in Butera

Butera, Italy, has had 37 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 10,745 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% 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. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 57 % · 63 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 51 % · 41 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 77 % · 29 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

10,745
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
37
fires
298
km²

How many times has Butera burned?

Butera has burned 37 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Butera fire, August 2026, with 189 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,745 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,328 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9.   24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 4× 26
37
fires
8
years with fire
10,745
cumulative ha
7,328
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 Butera

  1. 189 ha Butera fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 3,533 ha Butera fire, July 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 194 ha Butera fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 194 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 8 ha Licata fire, 5 June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1 ha Mazzarino fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 0 ha Mazzarino fire, 22 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 69 ha Butera fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 515 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 826 ha Butera fire, 16 July 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 824 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 104 ha Butera fire, 13 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 220 ha Butera fire, 7 July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 227 ha Butera fire, June 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 185 ha Butera fire, September 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 185 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 289 ha Butera fire, 7 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 289 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 304 ha Butera fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 303 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 449 ha Butera fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 472 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 536 ha Butera fire, 20 July 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 536 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 792 ha Ravanusa fire, July 2023 2.7% of the municipality · 2,776 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 108 ha Butera fire, 16 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 244 ha Butera fire, 9 July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 244 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 192 ha Butera fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 192 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 185 ha Butera fire, 2 August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 187 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 356 ha Butera fire, July 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 355 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 228 ha Butera fire, 30 June 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 411 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 133 ha Butera fire, 28 June 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 97 ha Mazzarino fire, June 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 452 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 114 ha Butera fire, 31 July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 208 ha Butera fire, 24 July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 207 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 124 ha Butera fire, 21 July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 124 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 161 ha Butera fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 161 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 0 ha Ravanusa fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 422 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 107 ha Butera fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 2 ha Mazzarino fire, 22 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 96 ha Mazzarino fire, 8 July 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 321 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 241 ha Butera fire, June 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 241 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 217 ha Butera fire, August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 216 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 5 ha Ravanusa fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 186 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 2 ha Mazzarino fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 136 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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