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Wildfires in Catania

Catania, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,595 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 25 Low 22° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 21° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 24° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 20° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 69 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 51 % · 28 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

1,595
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
4
fires
182
km²

How many times has Catania burned?

Catania has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Catania fire, 30 July 2021, with 726 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,595 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,201 hectares, 6.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
1,595
cumulative ha
1,201
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 Catania

  1. 726 ha Catania fire, 30 July 2021 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 726 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 318 ha Catania fire, 30 July 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 171 ha Catania fire, July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 171 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 380 ha Catania fire, July 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 380 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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