Wildfires in Napoli
Napoli, Italy: 17 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 92 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,300 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ercolano in July 2017, with 3,362 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
- 6,300ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 5.3%
- 1,178 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 22
- of 92
- Largest fire
- 3,362ha
- Ercolano · July 2017
- Inhabitants
- 2,703,677
- 2.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Low 20° · 50 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 19° · 58 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 19° · 59 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 17° · 54 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 16° · 75 % · 49 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 18° · 56 % · 40 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 18° · 57 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 17° · 62 % · 36 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Terzigno 17,211 inhabitants 1,250 ha · 53 %
- Torre del Greco 78,997 inhabitants 895 ha · 29 %
- Roccarainola 6,564 inhabitants 738 ha · 26 %
- Ercolano 50,124 inhabitants 662 ha · 33 %
- Ottaviano 23,115 inhabitants 629 ha · 31 %
- Vico Equense 20,254 inhabitants 459 ha · 16 %
- Pozzuoli 76,331 inhabitants 360 ha · 8.3 %
- Boscotrecase 9,795 inhabitants 211 ha · 28 %
- Sant'Anastasia 26,170 inhabitants 190 ha · 10 %
- Somma Vesuviana 33,697 inhabitants 153 ha · 5.0 %
- Pimonte 5,860 inhabitants 153 ha · 12 %
- Trecase 8,533 inhabitants 116 ha · 19 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land49 %
- Broadleaved forest18 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland12 %
- Mixed forest6.8 %
- Agricultural areas5.9 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub3.4 %
- Coniferous forest2.9 %
- Artificial surfaces1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 6×Roccarainola738 ha
- 4×Vico Equense459 ha
- 3×Terzigno1,250 ha
- 2×Ottaviano629 ha
- 2×Pozzuoli360 ha
- 2×Boscotrecase211 ha
- 2×Trecase116 ha
- 2×Agerola55 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,362 haErcolanoJuly 2017 · 15 days
- 681 haTerzignoAugust 2025 · 6 days
- 293 haSan Felice a CancelloJuly 2017 · 4 days of 352 ha in total
- 248 haVico Equense15 August 2017 · 5 days
- 243 haTerzignoJuly 2016 · 3 days
- 208 haVico Equense26 August 2017 · 7 days of 219 ha in total
- 193 haRoccarainolaAugust 2025 · 2 days of 206 ha in total
- 193 haVico EquenseSeptember 2026 · 2 days of 235 ha in total
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 | 193 | Vico Equense 193 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 989 | Terzigno 681 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 110 | Napoli 102 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 182 | Pozzuoli 182 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 86 | Roccarainola 86 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 44 | San Felice a Cancello 44 ha |
| 2017 | 7 | 4,454 | Ercolano 3,362 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 243 | Terzigno 243 ha |
All fires in Napoli · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 193 haVico EquenseSeptember 2026 · 2 days of 235 ha in total
- 193 haRoccarainolaAugust 2025 · 2 days of 206 ha in total
- 681 haTerzignoAugust 2025 · 6 days
- 114 haSan Felice a CancelloJune 2025 · 7 days of 242 ha in total
- 8 haArienzoAugust 2024 · 3 days of 175 ha in total
- 102 haNapoliJune 2024 · 2 days
- 182 haPozzuoliJune 2022 · 2 days
- 86 haRoccarainolaSeptember 2020 · 2 days of 100 ha in total
- 44 haSan Felice a CancelloAugust 2019 · 1 day of 179 ha in total
- 208 haVico Equense26 August 2017 · 7 days of 219 ha in total
- 248 haVico Equense15 August 2017 · 5 days
- 178 haPozzuoliJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 102 haGragnanoJuly 2017 · 5 days
- 293 haSan Felice a CancelloJuly 2017 · 4 days of 352 ha in total
- 62 haPositanoJuly 2017 · 4 days of 368 ha in total
- 3,362 haErcolanoJuly 2017 · 15 days
- 243 haTerzignoJuly 2016 · 3 days
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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