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Wildfires in Caltanissetta

Caltanissetta, Italy, has had 21 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,922 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 4 Very low 19° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 85 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 45 % · 12 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 19° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 23° · 56 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Caltanissetta: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,922
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
21
fires
420
km²

How many times has Caltanissetta burned?

Caltanissetta has burned 21 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Pietraperzia fire, August 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,922 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,728 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
21
fires
10
years with fire
1,922
cumulative ha
1,728
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 Caltanissetta

  1. 1 ha Pietraperzia fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 288 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 131 ha Caltanissetta fire, August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 135 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 322 ha Caltanissetta fire, July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 321 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 51 ha Caltanissetta fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 11 ha Pietraperzia fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 11 ha Santa Caterina Villarmosa fire, June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 369 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 31 ha Mazzarino fire, October 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 14 ha Pietraperzia fire, 25 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 359 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 116 ha Caltanissetta fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 134 ha Caltanissetta fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 134 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 102 ha Caltanissetta fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 118 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 68 ha Sommatino fire, July 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 91 ha Caltanissetta fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 181 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 214 ha Caltanissetta fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 214 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 79 ha Caltanissetta fire, 27 July 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 0 ha Pietraperzia fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 184 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 116 ha Caltanissetta fire, 22 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 125 ha Caltanissetta fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 66 ha Caltanissetta fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 108 ha Caltanissetta fire, 20 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 131 ha Caltanissetta fire, 7 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 131 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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