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Wildfires in Itala

Itala, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 322 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% 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. Thu 29 Low 20° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 72 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 79 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 55 % · 47 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 67 % · 41 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 65 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 70 % · 31 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

322
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
3
fires
11
km²

How many times has Itala burned?

Itala has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Scaletta Zanclea fire, August 2026, with 21 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 322 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 248 hectares, 23 % 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. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
322
cumulative ha
248
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 Itala

  1. 21 ha Scaletta Zanclea fire, August 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 209 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 54 ha Messina fire, 2 August 2024 5.0% of the municipality · 370 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 247 ha Scaletta Zanclea fire, August 2017 23% of the municipality · 586 ha in total · 3 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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