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Wildfires in Agrigento

Agrigento, Italy: 311 fires with a page have entered 39 of its 42 municipalities since 2016, burning 84,468 hectares inside the region. The largest was Castronovo di Sicilia in 20 July 2026, with 6,324 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
84,468ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
3,083 km²
fires
311
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
39
of 42
Largest fire
6,324ha
Castronovo di Sicilia · 20 July 2026
Inhabitants
395,699
213.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 22° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 60 % · 54 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 22° · 60 % · 57 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 22° · 70 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 21° · 73 % · 52 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 21° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 22° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 67 % · 40 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sant'Angelo Muxaro 1,152 inhabitants 9,769 ha · 1.5×
  2. Casteltermini 7,269 inhabitants 8,386 ha · 84 %
  3. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants 7,720 ha · 32 %
  4. Licata 34,287 inhabitants 5,746 ha · 32 %
  5. Bivona 5,741 ha · 65 %
  6. Santo Stefano Quisquina 4,070 inhabitants 4,972 ha · 58 %
  7. Ravanusa 10,349 inhabitants 4,325 ha · 87 %
  8. Naro 7,007 inhabitants 3,653 ha · 18 %
  9. Cattolica Eraclea 3,300 inhabitants 3,509 ha · 57 %
  10. Palma di Montechiaro 21,373 inhabitants 2,996 ha · 39 %
  11. Alessandria della Rocca 2,452 inhabitants 2,539 ha · 41 %
  12. Cammarata 2,140 ha · 11 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas51 %
  • Other natural land30 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub10.0 %
  • Coniferous forest4.2 %
  • Mixed forest2.3 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20264117,764 Castronovo di Sicilia 6,324 ha
20255213,829 Cattolica Eraclea 1,374 ha
2024235,760 Palma di Montechiaro 909 ha
2023379,973 Ravanusa 1,685 ha
2022326,374 Sant'Angelo Muxaro 603 ha
20213411,681 Cianciana 1,566 ha
2020315,275 Ravanusa 423 ha
2019193,108 Casteltermini 480 ha
2018132,736 Cattolica Eraclea 391 ha
2017143,642 Aragona 649 ha
2016174,409 Siculiana 709 ha

All fires in Agrigento · 313

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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