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Wildfires in Racalmuto

Racalmuto, Italy, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 633 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 19° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 19° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 67 % · 34 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

633
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
9
fires
68
km²

How many times has Racalmuto burned?

Racalmuto has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Racalmuto fire, July 2025, with 83 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 633 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 513 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
633
cumulative ha
513
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 Racalmuto

  1. 83 ha Racalmuto fire, July 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 279 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 22 ha Milena fire, 5 July 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 136 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 31 ha Bompensiere fire, September 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 276 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 63 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 384 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 68 ha Montedoro fire, July 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 164 ha Racalmuto fire, July 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 164 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 20 ha Bompensiere fire, August 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 181 ha Racalmuto fire, July 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 181 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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