Wildfires in Lecce
Lecce, Italy: 4 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 96 municipalities since 2016, burning 924 hectares inside the region. The largest was Santa Cesarea Terme in July 2026, with 400 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 924ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 2,764 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 96
- Largest fire
- 400ha
- Santa Cesarea Terme · July 2026
- Inhabitants
- 721,310
- 1.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 53 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 22° · 56 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 18° · 61 % · 44 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 20° · 54 % · 47 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 19° · 44 % · 42 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 17° · 45 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 19° · 51 % · 42 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 20° · 52 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Santa Cesarea Terme 2,847 inhabitants 400 ha · 15 %
- Otranto 5,587 inhabitants 255 ha · 3.3 %
- Lecce 14,099 inhabitants 160 ha · 0.7 %
- Salve 4,485 inhabitants 109 ha · 3.3 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas49 %
- Other natural land47 %
- Mixed forest2.1 %
- Coniferous forest1.6 %
- Artificial surfaces0.6 %
Largest recorded fires
- 400 haSanta Cesarea TermeJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 255 haOtrantoJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 160 haLecceAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 109 haSalveJune 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 | 1 | 400 | Santa Cesarea Terme 400 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 524 | Otranto 255 ha |
All fires in Lecce · 4
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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