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Wildfires in GenoaGenova

Genoa, Italy: 5 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 67 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,518 hectares inside the region. The largest was Genova in January 2017, with 642 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
1,518ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.8%
1,838 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 67
Largest fire
642ha
Genova · January 2017
Inhabitants
807,885
1.9 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 Very low 15° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 67 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 65 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 42 % · 34 km/h

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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. Genova 558,745 inhabitants 935 ha · 3.9 %
  2. Sestri Levante 17,349 inhabitants 161 ha · 4.8 %
  3. Bogliasco 4,418 inhabitants 120 ha · 27 %
  4. Arenzano 11,074 inhabitants 118 ha · 4.9 %
  5. Moconesi 54 ha · 3.4 %
  6. Pieve Ligure 53 ha · 15 %
  7. Favale di Malvaro 395 inhabitants 47 ha · 2.8 %
  8. Casarza Ligure 6,687 inhabitants 12 ha · 0.4 %
  9. Neirone 2,428 inhabitants 6 ha · 0.2 %
  10. Sori 2,402 inhabitants 6 ha · 0.4 %
  11. Moneglia 2,528 inhabitants 4 ha · 0.2 %
  12. Lorsica 2 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land71 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub8.5 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland7.1 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.1 %
  • Mixed forest5.6 %
  • Coniferous forest1.0 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
20261109 Moconesi 109 ha
20172965 Genova 642 ha
20162444 Pieve Ligure 267 ha

All fires in Genoa · 5

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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