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Wildfires in Geraci Siculo

Geraci Siculo, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,079 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% 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. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 67 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 34 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 40 % · 47 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 46 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 45 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 59 % · 61 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 54 % · 53 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

4,079
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
2
fires
113
km²

How many times has Geraci Siculo burned?

Geraci Siculo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Madonie fire, August 2021, with 3,899 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,079 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,899 hectares, 34 % 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.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,079
cumulative ha
3,899
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 Geraci Siculo

  1. 3,899 ha Madonie fire, August 2021 34% of the municipality · 11,728 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 180 ha San Mauro Castelverde fire, July 2017 1.6% of the municipality · 1,510 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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