Wildfires in Como
Como, Italy: 6 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 148 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,620 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sorico in January 2019, with 685 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
- 1,620ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 1,279 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 12
- of 148
- Largest fire
- 685ha
- Sorico · January 2019
- Inhabitants
- 583,269
- 2.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 22 Very low 15° · 30 % · 52 km/h
- Fri 23 Very low 10° · 76 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 13° · 32 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 11° · 55 % · 19 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 13° · 54 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 16° · 54 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 17° · 53 % · 17 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 17° · 47 % · 17 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sorico 1,240 inhabitants 685 ha · 28 %
- Garzeno 661 inhabitants 326 ha · 11 %
- Gravedona ed Uniti 311 ha · 7.8 %
- Carlazzo 3,175 inhabitants 108 ha · 8.4 %
- Veleso 208 inhabitants 78 ha · 13 %
- Zelbio 188 inhabitants 50 ha · 11 %
- Sormano 648 inhabitants 40 ha · 3.8 %
- Cusino 230 inhabitants 12 ha · 1.3 %
- Stazzona 599 inhabitants 4 ha · 0.6 %
- Magreglio 684 inhabitants 3 ha · 0.9 %
- Valbrona 2,600 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.1 %
- Lezzeno 1,923 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land52 %
- Broadleaved forest36 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland7.0 %
- Agricultural areas1.4 %
- Artificial surfaces1.2 %
- Coniferous forest1.0 %
- Other land cover0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Garzeno326 ha
- 2×Gravedona ed Uniti311 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 685 haSoricoJanuary 2019 · 4 days of 852 ha in total
- 372 haGarzenoMarch 2019 · 1 day
- 270 haGravedona ed UnitiApril 2017 · 3 days
- 172 haZelbioOctober 2017 · 2 days
- 120 haCarlazzoMarch 2019 · 1 day
- 1 haMandello del LarioAugust 2026 · 1 day of 305 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | Mandello del Lario 1 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 1,176 | Sorico 685 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 442 | Gravedona ed Uniti 270 ha |
All fires in Como · 6
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).