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Wildfires in Salerno

Salerno, Italy: 36 fires with a page have entered 46 of its 158 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,245 hectares inside the region. The largest was Olevano sul Tusciano in July 2017, with 535 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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
7,245ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.5%
4,932 km²
fires
36
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
46
of 158
Largest fire
535ha
Olevano sul Tusciano · July 2017
Inhabitants
1,045,512
6.9 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 21° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 20° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 18° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 70 % · 42 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 53 % · 36 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. Sarno 30,559 inhabitants 799 ha · 20 %
  2. Camerota 6,875 inhabitants 645 ha · 9.2 %
  3. San Rufo 1,608 inhabitants 408 ha · 13 %
  4. Positano 359 ha · 42 %
  5. Salerno 127,186 inhabitants 348 ha · 5.8 %
  6. Maiori 5,359 inhabitants 290 ha · 17 %
  7. Campagna 16,668 inhabitants 273 ha · 2.0 %
  8. Olevano sul Tusciano 6,536 inhabitants 262 ha · 9.9 %
  9. San Giovanni a Piro 3,599 inhabitants 244 ha · 6.4 %
  10. Mercato San Severino 21,634 inhabitants 242 ha · 8.1 %
  11. Salento 1,770 inhabitants 231 ha · 9.7 %
  12. Ceraso 2,253 inhabitants 214 ha · 4.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest35 %
  • Other natural land22 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland14 %
  • Agricultural areas14 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub7.3 %
  • Other land cover2.4 %
  • Mixed forest2.4 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.4 %
  • Coniferous forest1.2 %

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
20263410 Camerota 267 ha
20253830 Baronissi 319 ha
20241193 Castelnuovo di Conza 193 ha
20212355 San Cipriano Picentino 210 ha
20202406 Sarno 297 ha
2017255,051 Olevano sul Tusciano 535 ha

All fires in Salerno · 36

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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