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Wildfires in Tortora

Tortora, Italy, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 902 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 39 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 74 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 70 % · 38 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 13° · 59 % · 27 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

902
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
5
fires
58
km²

How many times has Tortora burned?

Tortora has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Tortora fire, July 2025, with 151 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 902 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 798 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
902
cumulative ha
798
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 Tortora

  1. 151 ha Tortora fire, July 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 151 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 139 ha Tortora fire, August 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 139 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 454 ha Tortora fire, 16 July 2017 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 518 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 20 ha Aieta fire, 9 July 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 267 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 138 ha Tortora fire, 9 July 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 137 ha in total · 5 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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