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Wildfires in Matera

Matera, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 297 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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. Mon 26 Moderate 18° · 50 % · 49 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 17° · 44 % · 43 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 17° · 40 % · 43 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 19° · 46 % · 36 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 18° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 66 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 18° · 49 % · 59 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 17° · 57 % · 36 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

297
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
389
km²

How many times has Matera burned?

Matera has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Matera fire, August 2023, with 160 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 297 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 203 hectares, 0.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
297
cumulative ha
203
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 Matera

  1. 160 ha Matera fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 7 ha Irsina fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 367 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 130 ha Matera fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 129 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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