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Wildfires in Cosenza

Cosenza, Italy: 146 fires with a page have entered 98 of its 150 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,203 hectares inside the region. The largest was Longobucco in August 2017, with 2,245 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.

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
34,203ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.1%
6,659 km²
fires
146
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
98
of 150
Largest fire
2,245ha
Longobucco · August 2017
Inhabitants
655,611
52.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 13° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 13° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 87 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 73 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 57 % · 31 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. Santa Domenica Talao 1,122 inhabitants 3,471 ha · 97 %
  2. Longobucco 2,614 inhabitants 2,917 ha · 14 %
  3. Castrovillari 20,821 inhabitants 1,999 ha · 15 %
  4. Morano Calabro 3,882 inhabitants 1,585 ha · 14 %
  5. Acri 18,836 inhabitants 1,411 ha · 7.1 %
  6. Rose 4,133 inhabitants 1,279 ha · 27 %
  7. Sangineto 1,243 inhabitants 1,000 ha · 37 %
  8. Tortora 6,009 inhabitants 902 ha · 16 %
  9. Cassano all'Ionio 16,507 inhabitants 860 ha · 5.4 %
  10. Albidona 1,142 inhabitants 782 ha · 12 %
  11. Grisolia 2,208 inhabitants 728 ha · 14 %
  12. Plataci 660 inhabitants 673 ha · 14 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas25 %
  • Other natural land22 %
  • Broadleaved forest16 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub11 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
  • Coniferous forest7.7 %
  • Mixed forest6.6 %

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
202693,451 Castrovillari 1,620 ha
2025122,329 Santa Domenica Talao 610 ha
202491,456 Albidona 331 ha
202371,600 Santa Domenica Talao 538 ha
20222228 Acri 116 ha
2021315,953 Acri 650 ha
202071,023 San Nicola Arcella 303 ha
201941,081 Cassano all'Ionio 641 ha
20182308 Serra d'Aiello 160 ha
20176116,306 Longobucco 2,245 ha
20163649 Santa Domenica Talao 305 ha

All fires in Cosenza · 147

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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