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Wildfires in Taranto

Taranto, Italy, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 55 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 51 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 21° · 51 % · 49 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 18° · 38 % · 57 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 19° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 21° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 62 % · 34 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

55
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
3
fires
247
km²

How many times has Taranto burned?

Taranto has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Martina Franca fire, August 2025, with 33 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 55 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48 hectares, 0.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
55
cumulative ha
48
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 Taranto

  1. 33 ha Martina Franca fire, August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 6 ha Martina Franca fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 16 ha Martina Franca fire, July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 235 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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