Wildfires in Biella
Biella, Italy: 4 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 74 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,424 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ailoche in August 2026, with 1,210 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 2,424ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.7%
- 914 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 74
- Largest fire
- 1,210ha
- Ailoche · August 2026
- Inhabitants
- 155,519
- 15.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Very low 14° · 51 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 14° · 64 % · 14 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 16° · 63 % · 15 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 16° · 57 % · 18 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 15° · 64 % · 18 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 14° · 65 % · 13 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 14° · 63 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 15° · 66 % · 16 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Sostegno 734 inhabitants 835 ha · 46 %
- Coggiola 1,625 inhabitants 687 ha · 29 %
- Ailoche 307 inhabitants 445 ha · 41 %
- Crevacuore 150 ha · 18 %
- Donato 702 inhabitants 120 ha · 10 %
- Caprile 78 ha · 6.7 %
- Benna 1,133 inhabitants 44 ha · 4.7 %
- Cossato 13,929 inhabitants 37 ha · 1.3 %
- Candelo 7,228 inhabitants 28 ha · 1.9 %
- Portula 1,120 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Broadleaved forest61 %
- Other natural land20 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
- Mixed forest4.5 %
- Agricultural areas2.8 %
- Coniferous forest1.7 %
Largest recorded fires
- 1,210 haAilocheAugust 2026 · 15 days of 1,535 ha in total
- 985 haSerravalle SesiaMarch 2019 · 8 days of 1,903 ha in total
- 120 haDonatoJanuary 2022 · 1 day
- 109 haBennaMarch 2019 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,210 | Ailoche 1,210 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 120 | Donato 120 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 1,094 | Serravalle Sesia 985 ha |
All fires in Biella · 4
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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