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Wildfires in Francofonte

Francofonte, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,866 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Mon 26 Low 21° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 28 % · 37 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 19° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 19° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 50 % · 50 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 17° · 41 % · 41 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

1,866
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
4
fires
74
km²

How many times has Francofonte burned?

Francofonte has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Francofonte fire, July 2026, with 852 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,866 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,099 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
1,866
cumulative ha
1,099
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 Francofonte

  1. 852 ha Francofonte fire, July 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 527 ha Francofonte fire, July 2021 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 526 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 275 ha Francofonte fire, June 2018 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 278 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 212 ha Francofonte fire, July 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 212 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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