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Wildfires in Cassaro

Cassaro, Italy, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 690 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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 28 Low 17° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 18° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 66 % · 43 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 59 % · 54 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 52 % · 38 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

690
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
5
fires
20
km²

How many times has Cassaro burned?

Cassaro has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Buscemi fire, July 2026, with 96 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 690 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 520 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
690
cumulative ha
520
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 Cassaro

  1. 96 ha Buscemi fire, July 2026 4.9% of the municipality · 349 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 123 ha Buscemi fire, July 2021 6.3% of the municipality · 570 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 184 ha Cassaro fire, June 2021 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 58 ha Palazzolo Acreide fire, July 2017 2.9% of the municipality · 277 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 229 ha Cassaro fire, June 2017 where it started 12% of the municipality · 228 ha in total · 5 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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