Wildfires in Ragusa
Ragusa, Italy: 15 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 13 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,553 hectares inside the region. The largest was Monterosso Almo in August 2021, with 1,873 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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
- 5,553ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.4%
- 1,618 km²
- fires
- 15
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 1,873ha
- Monterosso Almo · August 2021
- Inhabitants
- 213,059
- 26.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 20° · 42 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 18° · 34 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 18° · 50 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 18° · 49 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 18° · 51 % · 43 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 16° · 58 % · 55 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 15° · 61 % · 45 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 14° · 51 % · 48 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Ragusa 73,159 inhabitants 2,206 ha · 5.0 %
- Monterosso Almo 1,363 ha · 24 %
- Chiaramonte Gulfi 2,783 inhabitants 1,275 ha · 10 %
- Acate 10,729 inhabitants 337 ha · 3.3 %
- Giarratana 2,830 inhabitants 239 ha · 5.5 %
- Modica 20,577 inhabitants 133 ha · 0.5 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas36 %
- Coniferous forest36 %
- Other natural land12 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub12 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland3.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 7×Monterosso Almo1,363 ha
- 5×Chiaramonte Gulfi1,275 ha
- 4×Ragusa2,206 ha
- 4×Acate337 ha
- 2×Giarratana239 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,873 haMonterosso AlmoAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 1,332 haChiaramonte GulfiJune 2017 · 4 days
- 622 haRagusaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 548 haMonterosso AlmoJune 2021 · 4 days of 653 ha in total
- 220 haAcateJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 186 haMonterosso AlmoJune 2024 · 3 days
- 166 haMonterosso AlmoAugust 2016 · 2 days
- 133 haModicaJuly 2017 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 8 | Gela 5 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 186 | Monterosso Almo 186 ha |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,284 | Monterosso Almo 1,873 ha |
| 2017 | 3 | 1,684 | Chiaramonte Gulfi 1,332 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 390 | Monterosso Almo 166 ha |
All fires in Ragusa · 15
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 5 haGela20 July 2026 · 2 days of 284 ha in total
- 3 haGelaJune 2026 · 8 days of 172 ha in total
- 186 haMonterosso AlmoJune 2024 · 3 days
- 1,873 haMonterosso AlmoAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 622 haRagusaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 0 haMazzarroneJuly 2021 · 1 day of 123 ha in total
- 132 haRagusaJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 109 haAcateJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 548 haMonterosso AlmoJune 2021 · 4 days of 653 ha in total
- 133 haModicaJuly 2017 · 4 days
- 220 haAcateJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 1,332 haChiaramonte GulfiJune 2017 · 4 days
- 166 haMonterosso AlmoAugust 2016 · 2 days
- 113 haChiaramonte GulfiAugust 2016 · 3 days
- 112 haLicodia EubeaJune 2016 · 2 days of 302 ha in total
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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