Wildfires in Catanzaro
Catanzaro, Italy: 35 fires with a page have entered 36 of its 80 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,925 hectares inside the region. The largest was Catanzaro in August 2021, with 751 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
- 6,925ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.9%
- 2,399 km²
- fires
- 35
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 36
- of 80
- Largest fire
- 751ha
- Catanzaro · August 2021
- Inhabitants
- 334,691
- 20.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 Very low 19° · 53 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 17° · 62 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 16° · 70 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 13° · 77 % · 43 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 17° · 62 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 17° · 65 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 16° · 60 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 16° · 75 % · 27 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Isca sullo Ionio 1,691 inhabitants 809 ha · 34 %
- Catanzaro 84,670 inhabitants 675 ha · 6.0 %
- Badolato 2,843 inhabitants 547 ha · 15 %
- Tiriolo 3,581 inhabitants 486 ha · 17 %
- Martirano Lombardo 840 inhabitants 471 ha · 24 %
- Simeri Crichi 4,722 inhabitants 421 ha · 9.1 %
- Lamezia Terme 67,026 inhabitants 392 ha · 2.4 %
- Sant'Andrea Apostolo dello Ionio 294 ha · 14 %
- Santa Caterina dello Ionio 1,923 inhabitants 293 ha · 7.3 %
- San Floro 670 inhabitants 254 ha · 14 %
- Maida 4,396 inhabitants 233 ha · 4.0 %
- Gizzeria 5,065 inhabitants 221 ha · 6.0 %
What burns in the region
- Broadleaved forest32 %
- Agricultural areas30 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland12 %
- Mixed forest9.9 %
- Other natural land9.0 %
- Coniferous forest5.5 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub1.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 4×Isca sullo Ionio809 ha
- 4×Catanzaro675 ha
- 3×Lamezia Terme392 ha
- 3×Sant'Andrea Apostolo dello Ionio294 ha
- 3×Belcastro79 ha
- 3×San Mango d'Aquino76 ha
- 2×Badolato547 ha
- 2×Tiriolo486 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 751 haCatanzaroAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 582 haBadolatoAugust 2021 · 13 days
- 550 haIsca sullo IonioAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 487 haTirioloAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 387 haSant'Andrea Apostolo dello IonioJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 362 haGizzeriaAugust 2021 · 6 days
- 315 haMartirano LombardoAugust 2021 · 7 days
- 274 haSan FloroAugust 2021 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 137 | Sant'Andrea Apostolo dello Ionio 137 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 103 | Catanzaro 103 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 320 | Sellia Marina 198 ha |
| 2022 | 3 | 266 | Santa Caterina dello Ionio 155 ha |
| 2021 | 15 | 4,804 | Catanzaro 751 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | Mesoraca 2 ha |
| 2017 | 11 | 1,292 | Lamezia Terme 217 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | Mesoraca 3 ha |
All fires in Catanzaro · 35
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 137 haSant'Andrea Apostolo dello IonioJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 103 haCatanzaroAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 198 haSellia MarinaJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 121 haSimeri CrichiJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 155 haSanta Caterina dello IonioSeptember 2022 · 1 day
- 1 haMesoracaSeptember 2022 · 1 day of 122 ha in total
- 110 haCatanzaroJune 2022 · 2 days
- 106 haBorgiaAugust 2021 · 1 day
- 178 haSatrianoAugust 2021 · 7 days
- 138 haSanta Caterina dello IonioAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 108 haMaidaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 487 haTirioloAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 194 haZagariseAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 194 haPlataniaAugust 2021 · 3 days
- 274 haSan FloroAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 315 haMartirano LombardoAugust 2021 · 7 days
- 550 haIsca sullo IonioAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 362 haGizzeriaAugust 2021 · 6 days
- 751 haCatanzaroAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 582 haBadolatoAugust 2021 · 13 days
- 387 haSant'Andrea Apostolo dello IonioJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 177 haSan SosteneJuly 2021 · 7 days
- 2 haMesoracaAugust 2019 · 2 days of 117 ha in total
- 25 haCletoAugust 2017 · 2 days of 248 ha in total
- 101 haLamezia Terme17 August 2017 · 5 days
- 217 haLamezia Terme9 August 2017 · 3 days
- 6 haGrimaldiAugust 2017 · 8 days of 186 ha in total
- 206 haMartirano LombardoAugust 2017 · 3 days
- 140 haPetronàJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 125 haMaidaJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 114 haSquillaceJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 132 haTavernaJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 100 haSan Pietro ApostoloJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 126 haPetrizziJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 3 haMesoracaJuly 2016 · 8 days of 283 ha in total
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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