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Wildfires in Siena

Siena, Italy: 2 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 35 municipalities since 2016, burning 597 hectares inside the region. The largest was Piancastagnaio in July 2017, with 468 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
597ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.2%
3,823 km²
fires
2
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 35
Largest fire
468ha
Piancastagnaio · July 2017
Inhabitants
254,247
2.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 19° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 16° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 16° · 54 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 16° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 14° · 48 % · 38 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. Piancastagnaio 3,871 inhabitants 464 ha · 6.7 %
  2. San Casciano dei Bagni 1,500 inhabitants 129 ha · 1.4 %
  3. Abbadia San Salvatore 5,997 inhabitants 4 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas47 %
  • Other natural land28 %
  • Coniferous forest16 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.6 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.0 %

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20241129 San Casciano dei Bagni 129 ha
20171468 Piancastagnaio 468 ha

All fires in Siena · 2

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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