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Wildfires in Polizzi Generosa

Polizzi Generosa, Italy, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,788 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 9 Very low 16° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 19° · 68 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 20° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Low 18° · 71 % · 45 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Low 19° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Low 18° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Low 18° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Low 17° · 65 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Polizzi Generosa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,788
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
8
fires
135
km²

How many times has Polizzi Generosa burned?

Polizzi Generosa has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Castellana Sicula fire, August 2026, with 238 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
1,788
cumulative ha
29 Aug 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 Polizzi Generosa

  1. 238 ha Castellana Sicula fire, August 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 377 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 59 ha Caltavuturo fire, August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 382 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 393 ha Resuttano fire, 21 July 2026 2.9% of the municipality · 2,999 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 6 ha Polizzi Generosa fire, September 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 132 ha Polizzi Generosa fire, November 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 529 ha Polizzi Generosa fire, July 2022 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 876 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 329 ha Polizzi Generosa fire, July 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 103 ha Polizzi Generosa fire, August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 366 ha in total · 1 day

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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