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Wildfires in Benevento

Benevento, Italy: 18 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 78 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,389 hectares inside the region. The largest was Arpaia in August 2021, with 346 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
2,389ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.2%
2,072 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 78
Largest fire
346ha
Arpaia · August 2021
Inhabitants
262,413
9.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 38 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 51 % · 46 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 44 % · 42 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 51 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 17° · 55 % · 50 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 14° · 50 % · 55 km/h

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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. Arpaia 1,989 inhabitants 391 ha · 81 %
  2. Bonea 1,382 inhabitants 341 ha · 30 %
  3. Airola 8,106 inhabitants 314 ha · 21 %
  4. Sant'Agata de' Goti 10,282 inhabitants 200 ha · 3.2 %
  5. San Lorenzo Maggiore 1,879 inhabitants 185 ha · 11 %
  6. Durazzano 2,102 inhabitants 163 ha · 13 %
  7. Limatola 4,155 inhabitants 131 ha · 7.2 %
  8. San Lorenzello 2,101 inhabitants 126 ha · 9.0 %
  9. Cusano Mutri 3,763 inhabitants 121 ha · 2.1 %
  10. Faicchio 3,347 inhabitants 117 ha · 2.7 %
  11. Moiano 4,013 inhabitants 97 ha · 4.8 %
  12. Forchia 1,217 inhabitants 95 ha · 17 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land67 %
  • Broadleaved forest19 %
  • Agricultural areas6.4 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland3.2 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub2.3 %
  • Coniferous forest1.7 %

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
20262239 Bonea 239 ha
20252448 Airola 292 ha
202426 Arienzo 5 ha
20231129 Arpaia 129 ha
2022163 Limatola 63 ha
20213545 Arpaia 346 ha
20201127 San Lorenzello 127 ha
2019168 Castel Morrone 68 ha
20176763 San Lorenzo Maggiore 238 ha

All fires in Benevento · 19

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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