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Wildfires in Sciara

Sciara, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 62 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 73 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 74 % · 21 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

249
hectares burned
8.0 %
of its area
2
fires
31
km²

How many times has Sciara burned?

Sciara has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Sciara fire, August 2019, with 154 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
249
cumulative ha
2 Aug 2019
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 Sciara

  1. 154 ha Sciara fire, August 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 95 ha Sciara fire, August 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 114 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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