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Wildfires in Caltagirone

Caltagirone, Italy, has had 20 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 3,422 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% 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. Tue 10 Low 22° · 67 % · 41 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 22° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Low 21° · 66 % · 41 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Low 22° · 59 % · 42 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Low 21° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Low 20° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Low 20° · 68 % · 51 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 20° · 66 % · 46 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 Caltagirone: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,422
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
20
fires
382
km²

How many times has Caltagirone burned?

Caltagirone has burned 20 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Caltagirone fire, 8 August 2026, with 244 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,422 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,065 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 4× 26
20
fires
9
years with fire
3,422
cumulative ha
3,065
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 Caltagirone

  1. 244 ha Caltagirone fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 260 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 259 ha Caltagirone fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 258 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 73 ha Gela fire, 20 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 284 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 78 ha Caltagirone fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 170 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 21 ha Mineo fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 466 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 113 ha Niscemi fire, July 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 114 ha Caltagirone fire, 22 July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 109 ha Caltagirone fire, 22 July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 143 ha Caltagirone fire, 9 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 146 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 214 ha Caltagirone fire, June 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 213 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 160 ha San Michele di Ganzaria fire, August 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 386 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 7 ha Niscemi fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 195 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 278 ha Caltagirone fire, July 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 277 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 192 ha Caltagirone fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 191 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 149 ha Caltagirone fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 257 ha Caltagirone fire, 29 July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 255 ha Caltagirone fire, 27 July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 255 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 112 ha Caltagirone fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 225 ha San Michele di Ganzaria fire, July 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 507 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 417 ha Caltagirone fire, July 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 417 ha in total · 2 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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