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Wildfires in Laterza

Laterza, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Low 17° · 57 % · 55 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 15° · 48 % · 48 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 16° · 49 % · 52 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 17° · 55 % · 38 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 73 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 84 % · 47 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 63 % · 63 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 54 % · 58 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

475
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
3
fires
160
km²

How many times has Laterza burned?

Laterza has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Laterza fire, July 2026, with 137 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 475 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 359 hectares, 2.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
475
cumulative ha
359
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 Laterza

  1. 137 ha Laterza fire, July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 91 ha Gioia del Colle fire, July 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 311 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 247 ha Laterza fire, June 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 275 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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