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Wildfires in Riesi

Riesi, Italy, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 242 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sat 24 Low 23° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 20° · 46 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 51 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 42 % · 32 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

242
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
5
fires
67
km²

How many times has Riesi burned?

Riesi has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ravanusa fire, 21 July 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
242
cumulative ha
21 Jul 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 Riesi

  1. 1 ha Ravanusa fire, 21 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1 ha Mazzarino fire, 9 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 358 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 175 ha Sommatino fire, August 2023 2.6% of the municipality · 349 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 63 ha Naro fire, 20 June 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 895 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2 ha Mazzarino fire, 4 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 131 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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