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Wildfires in Plataci

Plataci, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 673 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Thu 29 Low 19° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 88 % · 50 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 15° · 58 % · 49 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 61 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 64 % · 23 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

673
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
3
fires
49
km²

How many times has Plataci burned?

Plataci has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Plataci fire, July 2025, with 175 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 673 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 521 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
673
cumulative ha
521
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 Plataci

  1. 175 ha Plataci fire, July 2025 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 119 ha Plataci fire, August 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 378 ha Plataci fire, August 2017 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 378 ha in total · 6 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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