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Wildfires in Ripacandida

Ripacandida, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2026: 126 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 17° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 19° · 48 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 18° · 40 % · 44 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 17° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 18° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 17° · 50 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 73 % · 39 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

126
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
2
fires
33
km²

How many times has Ripacandida burned?

Ripacandida has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Ripacandida fire, 21 August 2026, with 102 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
126
cumulative ha
21 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 Ripacandida

  1. 102 ha Ripacandida fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 24 ha Ginestra fire, 12 August 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 142 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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