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Wildfires in Cerda

Cerda, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 2,402 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% 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. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 58 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 71 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 76 % · 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

2,402
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
3
fires
44
km²

How many times has Cerda burned?

Cerda has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Cerda fire, July 2023, with 487 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,402 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,132 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,402
cumulative ha
2,132
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 Cerda

  1. 487 ha Cerda fire, July 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 487 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,645 ha Aliminusa fire, July 2023 38% of the municipality · 2,862 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 269 ha Cerda fire, August 2020 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 439 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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