Wildfires in Chieti
Chieti, Italy: 8 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 104 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,786 hectares inside the region. The largest was Atessa in August 2021, with 750 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
- 2,786ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 2,591 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 104
- Largest fire
- 750ha
- Atessa · August 2021
- Inhabitants
- 358,153
- 7.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 13° · 70 % · 48 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 13° · 75 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 13° · 74 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 14° · 69 % · 18 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 15° · 79 % · 15 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 14° · 78 % · 25 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 16° · 65 % · 17 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 18° · 58 % · 27 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Tornareccio 1,650 inhabitants 969 ha · 35 %
- Castiglione Messer Marino 1,518 inhabitants 552 ha · 12 %
- Carpineto Sinello 480 inhabitants 298 ha · 10.0 %
- Schiavi di Abruzzo 640 inhabitants 279 ha · 6.2 %
- Atessa 10,338 inhabitants 257 ha · 2.3 %
- Pizzoferrato 970 inhabitants 153 ha · 4.9 %
- Archi 1,999 inhabitants 128 ha · 4.5 %
- Quadri 699 inhabitants 113 ha · 15 %
- Guilmi 408 inhabitants 36 ha · 2.9 %
- Montazzoli 836 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas58 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
- Other natural land17 %
- Broadleaved forest7.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Carpineto Sinello298 ha
- 2×Tornareccio969 ha
- 2×Castiglione Messer Marino552 ha
- 2×Schiavi di Abruzzo279 ha
- 2×Atessa257 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 750 haAtessaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 482 haTornareccioJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 340 haCastiglione Messer MarinoAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 330 haCarpineto SinelloAugust 2026 · 2 days
- 266 haPizzoferratoAugust 2021 · 3 days
- 258 haSchiavi di AbruzzoAugust 2017 · 3 days of 272 ha in total
- 234 haCastiglione Messer MarinoAugust 2017 · 3 days
- 128 haArchiJuly 2025 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 812 | Tornareccio 482 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 128 | Archi 128 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 1,355 | Atessa 750 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 491 | Schiavi di Abruzzo 258 ha |
All fires in Chieti · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 330 haCarpineto SinelloAugust 2026 · 2 days
- 482 haTornareccioJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 128 haArchiJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 340 haCastiglione Messer MarinoAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 750 haAtessaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 266 haPizzoferratoAugust 2021 · 3 days
- 258 haSchiavi di AbruzzoAugust 2017 · 3 days of 272 ha in total
- 234 haCastiglione Messer MarinoAugust 2017 · 3 days
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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