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Wildfires in Ragusa

Ragusa, Italy, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,206 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% 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. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 33 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 18° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 79 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 78 % · 55 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 65 % · 45 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

2,206
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
4
fires
443
km²

How many times has Ragusa burned?

Ragusa has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Ragusa fire, August 2021, with 616 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
2,206
cumulative ha
11 Aug 2021
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 Ragusa

  1. 616 ha Ragusa fire, August 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 620 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,299 ha Monterosso Almo fire, August 2021 2.9% of the municipality · 1,868 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 132 ha Ragusa fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 158 ha Chiaramonte Gulfi fire, June 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,329 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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