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Wildfires in Lentini

Lentini, Italy, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 632 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 20° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 20° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 45 % · 44 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 50 % · 49 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 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

632
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
6
fires
216
km²

How many times has Lentini burned?

Lentini has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lentini fire, June 2026, with 175 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 632 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 350 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  2. 1× 17
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6
fires
6
years with fire
632
cumulative ha
350
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 Lentini

  1. 175 ha Lentini fire, June 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 152 ha Lentini fire, July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 105 ha Lentini fire, June 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 105 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 88 ha Militello in Val di Catania fire, July 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 0 ha Francofonte fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 212 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 111 ha Lentini fire, May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 4 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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