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Wildfires in Catania

Catania, Italy: 87 fires with a page have entered 27 of its 58 municipalities since 2016, burning 20,784 hectares inside the region. The largest was Santa Domenica Vittoria in July 2021, with 1,351 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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
20,784ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.8%
3,560 km²
fires
87
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
27
of 58
Largest fire
1,351ha
Santa Domenica Vittoria · July 2021
Inhabitants
1,020,427
20.4 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 Moderate 21° · 43 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 21° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 20° · 42 % · 45 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. Caltagirone 35,765 inhabitants 3,422 ha · 9.0 %
  2. Randazzo 3,335 ha · 16 %
  3. Mineo 4,486 inhabitants 3,310 ha · 14 %
  4. Castiglione di Sicilia 1,914 ha · 16 %
  5. Vizzini 5,702 inhabitants 1,877 ha · 15 %
  6. Catania 311,584 inhabitants 1,595 ha · 8.8 %
  7. Bronte 1,245 ha · 5.0 %
  8. Licodia Eubea 2,731 inhabitants 534 ha · 4.8 %
  9. Linguaglossa 5,003 inhabitants 530 ha · 8.9 %
  10. San Michele di Ganzaria 2,878 inhabitants 519 ha · 20 %
  11. Militello in Val di Catania 6,765 inhabitants 508 ha · 8.1 %
  12. Castel di Iudica 4,269 inhabitants 468 ha · 4.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas38 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub21 %
  • Other natural land20 %
  • Broadleaved forest10 %
  • Mixed forest3.6 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland2.8 %
  • Other land cover2.0 %
  • Coniferous forest1.8 %

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
2026122,826 Francofonte 777 ha
2025112,243 Mineo 467 ha
20244992 San Michele di Ganzaria 387 ha
2023102,422 Mineo 1,014 ha
20223692 Grammichele 352 ha
2021225,630 Santa Domenica Vittoria 1,351 ha
20204751 Randazzo 301 ha
201941,875 Randazzo 1,158 ha
20183630 Caltagirone 417 ha
2017132,306 Bronte 523 ha
20162571 Catania 380 ha

All fires in Catania · 88

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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