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Wildfires in Palermo

Palermo, Italy: 195 fires with a page have entered 73 of its 82 municipalities since 2016, burning 95,198 hectares inside the region. The largest was Madonie in August 2021, with 9,318 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
95,198ha
Since 2016
Of the region
19%
4,985 km²
fires
195
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
73
of 82
Largest fire
9,318ha
Madonie · August 2021
Inhabitants
1,136,353
83.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Low 22° · 51 % · 58 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 53 % · 44 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 21° · 51 % · 38 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 21° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 55 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 55 % · 45 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Monreale 9,934 ha · 19 %
  2. Gratteri 859 inhabitants 4,564 ha · 1.2×
  3. Palermo 630,167 inhabitants 4,324 ha · 27 %
  4. Piana degli Albanesi 5,541 inhabitants 4,255 ha · 66 %
  5. San Mauro Castelverde 1,346 inhabitants 4,098 ha · 36 %
  6. Geraci Siculo 1,702 inhabitants 4,079 ha · 36 %
  7. Castronovo di Sicilia 2,821 inhabitants 2,871 ha · 14 %
  8. Misilmeri 28,760 inhabitants 2,692 ha · 39 %
  9. Corleone 10,364 inhabitants 2,639 ha · 12 %
  10. Petralia Sottana 2,587 ha · 15 %
  11. Santa Cristina Gela 1,006 inhabitants 2,576 ha · 66 %
  12. Cefalù 13,881 inhabitants 2,487 ha · 38 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas44 %
  • Other natural land23 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub18 %
  • Coniferous forest5.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.9 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.9 %
  • Mixed forest1.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
20263215,306 Campofelice di Fitalia 2,269 ha
2025112,388 Piana degli Albanesi 517 ha
202441,031 Sclafani Bagni 459 ha
20234324,832 Monreale 3,736 ha
2022217,479 Misilmeri 938 ha
20212422,526 Madonie 9,318 ha
2020245,355 Altofonte 839 ha
201961,155 Alimena 272 ha
201842,025 Altavilla Milicia 1,652 ha
2017207,661 Campofiorito 1,696 ha
201685,846 Cefalù 3,442 ha

All fires in Palermo · 197

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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