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Wildfires in Positano

Positano, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 359 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 19° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 65 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 71 % · 53 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 52 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 53 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 54 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 64 % · 48 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

359
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
3
fires
8
km²

How many times has Positano burned?

Positano has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Vico Equense fire, September 2026, with 42 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
359
cumulative ha
14 Sept 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 Positano

  1. 42 ha Vico Equense fire, September 2026 5.0% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 10 ha Vico Equense fire, 26 August 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 307 ha Positano fire, July 2017 where it started 36% of the municipality · 368 ha in total · 4 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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