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Wildfires in Caltanissetta

Caltanissetta, Italy: 176 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 22 municipalities since 2016, burning 40,474 hectares inside the region. The largest was Butera in July 2026, with 3,564 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
40,474ha
Since 2016
Of the region
19%
2,134 km²
fires
176
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
21
of 22
Largest fire
3,564ha
Butera · July 2026
Inhabitants
189,059
214.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 9 Low 20° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Low 22° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Low 23° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Low 22° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Low 23° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 63 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Low 21° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Low 20° · 73 % · 30 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. Butera 4,164 inhabitants 10,745 ha · 36 %
  2. Mazzarino 10,932 inhabitants 6,746 ha · 23 %
  3. Sutera 1,178 inhabitants 4,540 ha · 1.3×
  4. Campofranco 2,656 inhabitants 2,878 ha · 80 %
  5. Gela 70,109 inhabitants 2,285 ha · 8.2 %
  6. Caltanissetta 4,673 inhabitants 1,922 ha · 4.6 %
  7. Resuttano 1,752 inhabitants 1,881 ha · 49 %
  8. Niscemi 24,934 inhabitants 1,772 ha · 18 %
  9. Bompensiere 491 inhabitants 1,246 ha · 62 %
  10. Santa Caterina Villarmosa 1,154 ha · 15 %
  11. Milena 2,700 inhabitants 1,145 ha · 46 %
  12. Mussomeli 9,913 inhabitants 1,020 ha · 6.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas56 %
  • Other natural land28 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.4 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub5.5 %
  • Coniferous forest1.0 %

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
2026249,965 Butera 3,564 ha
2025368,124 Niscemi 1,133 ha
20244739 Santa Caterina Villarmosa 370 ha
2023255,870 Ravanusa 1,096 ha
2022173,968 Mazzarino 452 ha
2021234,682 Mazzarino 491 ha
2020131,489 Caltanissetta 214 ha
2019172,737 Mussomeli 478 ha
20181131 Caltanissetta 131 ha
2017111,787 Sutera 487 ha
20165982 Bompensiere 257 ha

All fires in Caltanissetta · 177

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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