Wildfires in Bologna
Bologna, Italy: 4 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 55 municipalities since 2016, burning 436 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vergato in June 2022, with 150 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 436ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 3,702 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 55
- Largest fire
- 150ha
- Vergato · June 2022
- Inhabitants
- 993,048
- 0.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 14 Very low 12° · 66 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 9° · 73 % · 17 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 12° · 70 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 14° · 77 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 15° · 77 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low 15° · 71 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 20 Very low 18° · 61 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 21 Very low 15° · 62 % · 25 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Vergato 7,544 inhabitants 289 ha · 4.8 %
- Pianoro 17,652 inhabitants 125 ha · 1.2 %
- Lizzano in Belvedere 2,152 inhabitants 22 ha · 0.3 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land45 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland27 %
- Broadleaved forest23 %
- Agricultural areas4.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Vergato289 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 150 haVergatoJune 2022 · 2 days
- 139 haVergatoAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 125 haPianoroAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 22 haSan Marcello PiteglioDecember 2016 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 125 | Pianoro 125 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 150 | Vergato 150 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 139 | Vergato 139 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 22 | San Marcello Piteglio 22 ha |
All fires in Bologna · 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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