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Wildfires in Maratea

Maratea, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 605 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% 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. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 59 % · 35 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

605
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
4
fires
68
km²

How many times has Maratea burned?

Maratea has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maratea fire, July 2026, with 160 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
605
cumulative ha
22 Jul 2026
most recent

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 Maratea

  1. 160 ha Maratea fire, July 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 162 ha Maratea fire, July 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 65 ha Tortora fire, 16 July 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 518 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 219 ha Maratea fire, July 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 218 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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