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Wildfires in Ferrandina

Ferrandina, Italy, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 336 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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 31 Very low 19° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 58 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 92 % · 46 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 68 % · 47 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 65 % · 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

336
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
5
fires
217
km²

How many times has Ferrandina burned?

Ferrandina has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Craco fire, August 2026, with 68 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 336 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 318 hectares, 1.5 % 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.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
336
cumulative ha
318
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 Ferrandina

  1. 68 ha Craco fire, August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 845 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 22 ha Pisticci fire, 10 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 399 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 115 ha Ferrandina fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 42 ha Craco fire, August 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 90 ha Pisticci fire, August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 146 ha in total · 1 day

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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