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Wildfires in Maierà

Maierà, Italy, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 438 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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 16° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 72 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 64 % · 47 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 54 % · 28 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

438
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
6
fires
18
km²

How many times has Maierà burned?

Maierà has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Buonvicino fire, August 2024, with 47 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 438 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 335 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
438
cumulative ha
335
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 Maierà

  1. 47 ha Buonvicino fire, August 2024 2.6% of the municipality · 176 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 262 ha Maierà fire, August 2021 where it started 15% of the municipality · 264 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 14 ha Buonvicino fire, September 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2 ha Grisolia fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 213 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 111 ha Maierà fire, July 2017 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2 ha Grisolia fire, June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 291 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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