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Wildfires in Gela

Gela, Italy, has had 17 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 2,285 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 62 % · 75 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 69 % · 52 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 77 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 19° · 83 % · 21 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

2,285
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
17
fires
279
km²

How many times has Gela burned?

Gela has burned 17 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gela fire, September 2026, with 112 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,285 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,600 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 6× 26
17
fires
5
years with fire
2,285
cumulative ha
1,600
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 Gela

  1. 112 ha Gela fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 206 ha Gela fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 284 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 135 ha Gela fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 31 ha Butera fire, July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 115 ha Gela fire, 7 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 168 ha Gela fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 447 ha Butera fire, August 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 515 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 0 ha Niscemi fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 104 ha Gela fire, 19 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 7 ha Butera fire, 7 July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 154 ha Gela fire, 3 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 153 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 173 ha Gela fire, June 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 141 ha Gela fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 141 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 153 ha Gela fire, August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 153 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 24 ha Butera fire, 2 August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 472 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 309 ha Gela fire, July 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 308 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 6 ha Butera fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 113 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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