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Wildfires in Bari

Bari, Italy: 26 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 41 municipalities since 2016, burning 10,470 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gravina in Puglia in 25 August 2026, with 3,462 hectares inside the region. 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.

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

hectares burned
10,470ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.7%
3,828 km²
fires
26
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 41
Largest fire
3,462ha
Gravina in Puglia · 25 August 2026
Inhabitants
1,126,739
9.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 18° · 55 % · 46 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 17° · 48 % · 41 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 16° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 19° · 52 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 77 % · 37 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Gravina in Puglia 42,703 inhabitants 6,441 ha · 17 %
  2. Altamura 69,880 inhabitants 2,239 ha · 5.2 %
  3. Santeramo in Colle 25,713 inhabitants 806 ha · 5.6 %
  4. Toritto 2,128 inhabitants 428 ha · 5.7 %
  5. Corato 47,033 inhabitants 282 ha · 1.7 %
  6. Bitonto 240 ha · 1.4 %
  7. Ruvo di Puglia 210 ha · 0.9 %
  8. Poggiorsini 1,273 inhabitants 83 ha · 1.9 %
  9. Gioia del Colle 26,562 inhabitants 77 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Grumo Appula 12,141 inhabitants 15 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land56 %
  • Agricultural areas26 %
  • Broadleaved forest5.7 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland4.3 %
  • Coniferous forest3.6 %
  • Mixed forest2.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.2 %
  • Other land cover0.8 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub0.6 %

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
2026116,228 Gravina in Puglia 3,462 ha
20254208 Altamura 111 ha
20241282 Corato 282 ha
20231145 Santeramo in Colle 145 ha
20222369 Toritto 193 ha
202151,828 Gravina in Puglia 1,058 ha
201721,568 Gravina in Puglia 1,309 ha
20161192 Altamura 192 ha

All fires in Bari · 27

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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