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Wildfires in Vizzini

Vizzini, Italy, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 1,877 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Low 22° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 19° · 50 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 21° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 19° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 20° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 20° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 21° · 42 % · 32 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

1,877
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
9
fires
126
km²

How many times has Vizzini burned?

Vizzini has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Francofonte fire, July 2026, with 777 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,877 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,745 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
1,877
cumulative ha
1,745
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 Vizzini

  1. 777 ha Francofonte fire, July 2026 6.2% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 255 ha Vizzini fire, July 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 255 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 104 ha Vizzini fire, July 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 109 ha Vizzini fire, September 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 147 ha Vizzini fire, 30 July 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 226 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 132 ha Vizzini fire, 3 July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 205 ha Vizzini fire, June 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 204 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 146 ha Vizzini fire, August 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 146 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3 ha Francofonte fire, June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 278 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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