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Wildfires in Salemi

Salemi, Italy, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,264 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sun 25 Low 20° · 50 % · 47 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 22° · 55 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 22° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 45 % · 38 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 42 % · 50 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 41 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

3,264
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
8
fires
182
km²

How many times has Salemi burned?

Salemi has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Salemi fire, August 2026, with 294 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,264 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,940 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
3,264
cumulative ha
1,940
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 Salemi

  1. 294 ha Salemi fire, August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 293 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 522 ha Salemi fire, June 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,217 ha Salemi fire, August 2023 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 416 ha Salemi fire, September 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 415 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 100 ha Salemi fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 331 ha Trapani fire, July 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 872 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 203 ha Salemi fire, August 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 202 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 182 ha Salemi fire, August 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 182 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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