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Wildfires in Sulmona

Sulmona, Italy, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,139 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 31 Very low 8° · 92 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 5° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 5° · 97 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 7° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 9° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 10° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 12° · 52 % · 18 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

1,139
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
2
fires
58
km²

How many times has Sulmona burned?

Sulmona has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Pratola Peligna fire, July 2023, with 20 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,139
cumulative ha
25 Jul 2023
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 Sulmona

  1. 20 ha Pratola Peligna fire, July 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 432 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,119 ha Sulmona fire, August 2017 where it started 19% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 13 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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