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Wildfires in Forenza

Forenza, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 177 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 45 % · 42 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 65 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 77 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 68 % · 66 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 90 % · 52 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 86 % · 45 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

177
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
116
km²

How many times has Forenza burned?

Forenza has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Forenza fire, August 2025, with 139 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 177 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 162 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
177
cumulative ha
162
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 Forenza

  1. 70 ha Forenza fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 139 ha Forenza fire, August 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 39 ha Avigliano fire, August 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 107 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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