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Wildfires in Genova

Genova, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 935 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% 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. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 59 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 58 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 56 % · 49 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

935
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
3
fires
241
km²

How many times has Genova burned?

Genova has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Genova fire, July 2017, with 204 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
935
cumulative ha
15 Jul 2017
most recent

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 Genova

  1. 204 ha Genova fire, July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 326 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 642 ha Genova fire, January 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 643 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 88 ha Pieve Ligure fire, August 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 267 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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