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Wildfires in Lago

Lago, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 618 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 55 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 64 % · 15 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 72 % · 46 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 11° · 60 % · 18 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

618
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
4
fires
50
km²

How many times has Lago burned?

Lago has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Lago fire, 2 August 2021, with 141 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 618 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 525 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
618
cumulative ha
525
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 Lago

  1. 141 ha Lago fire, 2 August 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 141 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 134 ha Lago fire, 1 August 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 260 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 111 ha Lago fire, August 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 124 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 231 ha Lago fire, July 2017 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 233 ha in total · 5 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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