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Wildfires in Cefalù

Cefalù, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 2,487 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 72 % · 57 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 78 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 16° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 88 % · 24 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

2,487
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
4
fires
66
km²

How many times has Cefalù burned?

Cefalù has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2023. The most recent: Gratteri fire, September 2023, with 538 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,487 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,958 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
2,487
cumulative ha
1,958
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 Cefalù

  1. 538 ha Gratteri fire, September 2023 8.1% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 649 ha Gratteri fire, July 2023 9.8% of the municipality · 1,450 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 31 ha Castelbuono fire, June 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 515 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,268 ha Cefalù fire, June 2016 where it started 19% of the municipality · 3,436 ha in total · 3 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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