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Wildfires in Erice

Erice, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,233 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 52 % · 50 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 67 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 54 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 71 % · 39 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

1,233
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
3
fires
47
km²

How many times has Erice burned?

Erice has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Erice fire, May 2022, with 172 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,233 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,001 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,233
cumulative ha
1,001
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 Erice

  1. 172 ha Erice fire, May 2022 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 390 ha Erice fire, July 2021 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 394 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 671 ha Erice fire, June 2017 where it started 14% of the municipality · 672 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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