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Wildfires in Caserta

Caserta, Italy: 72 fires with a page have entered 37 of its 104 municipalities since 2016, burning 11,961 hectares inside the region. The largest was Caserta in August 2021, with 607 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.

hectares burned
11,961ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.5%
2,644 km²
fires
72
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
37
of 104
Largest fire
607ha
Caserta · August 2021
Inhabitants
886,768
13.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 57 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 54 % · 18 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Mondragone 28,622 inhabitants 1,534 ha · 28 %
  2. Castel Morrone 3,587 inhabitants 1,185 ha · 47 %
  3. Caserta 72,805 inhabitants 1,074 ha · 20 %
  4. Sessa Aurunca 20,209 inhabitants 1,058 ha · 6.5 %
  5. Arienzo 5,307 inhabitants 787 ha · 57 %
  6. Piana di Monte Verna 2,066 inhabitants 649 ha · 28 %
  7. San Felice a Cancello 16,842 inhabitants 625 ha · 23 %
  8. Pignataro Maggiore 5,733 inhabitants 525 ha · 16 %
  9. Castel di Sasso 1,051 inhabitants 456 ha · 23 %
  10. San Prisco 12,110 inhabitants 394 ha · 51 %
  11. Giano Vetusto 638 inhabitants 341 ha · 31 %
  12. Mignano Monte Lungo 3,004 inhabitants 337 ha · 6.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land49 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland16 %
  • Broadleaved forest13 %
  • Agricultural areas11 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub8.7 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.4 %

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
20265825 Pignataro Maggiore 263 ha
202581,170 Caserta 238 ha
202481,647 Piana di Monte Verna 543 ha
20231121 Sessa Aurunca 121 ha
202271,169 Mondragone 350 ha
2021111,847 Caserta 607 ha
20204340 Carinola 118 ha
20197890 Piana di Monte Verna 161 ha
2017203,820 Casagiove 496 ha
20161132 Rocca d'Evandro 132 ha

All fires in Caserta · 72

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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