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Wildfires in Misilmeri

Misilmeri, Italy, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,692 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 67 % · 58 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 63 % · 44 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 78 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 81 % · 21 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

2,692
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
15
fires
69
km²

How many times has Misilmeri burned?

Misilmeri has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Santa Cristina Gela fire, July 2026, with 63 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,692 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,829 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
2,692
cumulative ha
1,829
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 Misilmeri

  1. 63 ha Santa Cristina Gela fire, July 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 48 days
  2. 197 ha Palermo fire, September 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 274 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 603 ha Misilmeri fire, September 2023 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 603 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 102 ha Misilmeri fire, August 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 4 ha Santa Cristina Gela fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 194 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 633 ha Misilmeri fire, September 2022 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 937 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 17 ha Palermo fire, August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 176 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 113 ha Ventimiglia di Sicilia fire, August 2022 1.6% of the municipality · 815 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 163 ha Misilmeri fire, July 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 163 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 151 ha Misilmeri fire, July 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 151 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 196 ha Misilmeri fire, August 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 196 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 209 ha Misilmeri fire, July 2018 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 209 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 101 ha Belmonte Mezzagno fire, August 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 322 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 20 ha Santa Cristina Gela fire, August 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 256 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 119 ha Misilmeri fire, July 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 119 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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