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Wildfires in Messina

Messina, Italy: 73 fires with a page have entered 66 of its 107 municipalities since 2016, burning 24,987 hectares inside the region. The largest was Madonie in August 2021, with 2,194 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
24,987ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.7%
3,242 km²
fires
73
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
66
of 107
Largest fire
2,194ha
Madonie · August 2021
Inhabitants
547,880
45.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Low 20° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 20° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 72 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 64 % · 54 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 61 % · 52 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 64 % · 44 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 67 % · 23 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Messina 218,786 inhabitants 4,033 ha · 19 %
  2. Patti 12,699 inhabitants 2,091 ha · 42 %
  3. Mongiuffi Melia 528 inhabitants 2,046 ha · 85 %
  4. Castel di Lucio 1,226 inhabitants 1,811 ha · 63 %
  5. Naso 13,031 inhabitants 1,367 ha · 37 %
  6. Roccella Valdemone 852 inhabitants 1,186 ha · 29 %
  7. Mistretta 4,364 inhabitants 770 ha · 6.1 %
  8. Santo Stefano di Camastra 4,348 inhabitants 754 ha · 35 %
  9. Santa Domenica Vittoria 738 ha · 36 %
  10. Gioiosa Marea 6,733 inhabitants 672 ha · 26 %
  11. Francavilla di Sicilia 3,543 inhabitants 599 ha · 7.3 %
  12. Scaletta Zanclea 1,836 inhabitants 563 ha · 1.2×

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas37 %
  • Other natural land29 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub22 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.6 %
  • Mixed forest1.8 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

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
202652,408 Mongiuffi Melia 1,373 ha
20251292 Cesarò 292 ha
20242517 Messina 370 ha
2023237,237 Messina 1,637 ha
20223424 Castelmola 168 ha
2021135,448 Madonie 2,194 ha
202052,203 Naso 1,159 ha
20181600 Mongiuffi Melia 600 ha
2017175,066 Patti 1,121 ha
20163793 Motta d'Affermo 432 ha

All fires in Messina · 73

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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