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Wildfires in Matera

Matera, Italy: 31 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 31 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,188 hectares inside the region. The largest was Craco in August 2026, with 846 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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
6,188ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.8%
3,452 km²
fires
31
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 31
Largest fire
846ha
Craco · August 2026
Inhabitants
190,739
32.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 47 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 18° · 39 % · 45 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 56 % · 46 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 62 % · 58 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 52 % · 55 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 56 % · 47 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. Craco 620 inhabitants 1,323 ha · 17 %
  2. Irsina 4,449 inhabitants 1,199 ha · 4.6 %
  3. Pisticci 16,708 inhabitants 1,147 ha · 5.0 %
  4. Montescaglioso 9,241 inhabitants 488 ha · 2.8 %
  5. Pomarico 3,763 inhabitants 416 ha · 3.2 %
  6. Ferrandina 8,032 inhabitants 336 ha · 1.6 %
  7. Matera 59,685 inhabitants 297 ha · 0.8 %
  8. Tricarico 4,761 inhabitants 281 ha · 1.6 %
  9. San Mauro Forte 1,265 inhabitants 259 ha · 3.0 %
  10. Colobraro 1,064 inhabitants 216 ha · 3.3 %
  11. Accettura 1,622 inhabitants 181 ha · 2.0 %
  12. Grottole 2,031 inhabitants 107 ha · 0.9 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas60 %
  • Other natural land16 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland12 %
  • Mixed forest4.2 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.7 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub3.5 %
  • Coniferous forest0.8 %

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
202641,208 Craco 846 ha
202592,048 Irsina 547 ha
20243450 Accettura 181 ha
20236838 Montescaglioso 194 ha
20222410 Pisticci 294 ha
202161,058 Irsina 329 ha
20201130 Matera 130 ha
20171146 Pisticci 146 ha

All fires in Matera · 32

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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