Wildfires in Imperia
Imperia, Italy: 7 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 66 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,529 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vasia in January 2017, with 1,604 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
- 2,529ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.2%
- 1,156 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 15
- of 66
- Largest fire
- 1,604ha
- Vasia · January 2017
- Inhabitants
- 204,550
- 12.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 13° · 28 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 12° · 38 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 15° · 55 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 15° · 54 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 15° · 60 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 16° · 46 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 15° · 57 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 14° · 62 % · 32 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Montalto Carpasio 554 ha · 18 %
- Prelà 471 inhabitants 521 ha · 35 %
- Vasia 371 inhabitants 443 ha · 40 %
- Borgomaro 187 ha · 8.0 %
- Ceriana 1,103 inhabitants 164 ha · 5.2 %
- Ventimiglia 22,851 inhabitants 134 ha · 2.5 %
- Imperia 42,060 inhabitants 118 ha · 2.6 %
- Borghetto d'Arroscia 400 inhabitants 109 ha · 4.2 %
- Aurigo 331 inhabitants 103 ha · 11 %
- Sanremo 52,787 inhabitants 83 ha · 1.5 %
- Lucinasco 295 inhabitants 47 ha · 5.9 %
- Pontedassio 2,356 inhabitants 38 ha · 2.8 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land43 %
- Broadleaved forest38 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland12 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub5.1 %
- Agricultural areas1.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Montalto Carpasio554 ha
- 2×Prelà521 ha
- 2×Borgomaro187 ha
- 2×Dolcedo14 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,604 haVasiaJanuary 2017 · 4 days
- 247 haCerianaAugust 2023 · 3 days
- 155 haImperiaSeptember 2016 · 2 days
- 142 haMontalto CarpasioSeptember 2023 · 2 days
- 138 haCaravonicaApril 2026 · 2 days
- 134 haVentimigliaJuly 2023 · 3 days
- 109 haBorghetto d'ArrosciaJanuary 2017 · 2 days
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 | 138 | Caravonica 138 ha |
| 2023 | 3 | 523 | Ceriana 247 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 1,713 | Vasia 1,604 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 155 | Imperia 155 ha |
All fires in Imperia · 7
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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