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Wildfires in Roccapalumba

Roccapalumba, Italy, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2021: 177 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 19° · 71 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Low 23° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Moderate 20° · 63 % · 57 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 22° · 56 % · 46 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Roccapalumba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

177
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
1
fires
31
km²

How many times has Roccapalumba burned?

Roccapalumba has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Roccapalumba fire, August 2021, with 177 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
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  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
177
cumulative ha
8 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 Roccapalumba

  1. 0 ha Castronovo di Sicilia fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 177 ha Roccapalumba fire, August 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 207 ha in total · 3 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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