Wildfires in Taranto
Taranto, Italy: 10 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 29 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,636 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gioia del Colle in July 2025, with 286 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
- 1,636ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 2,444 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 29
- Largest fire
- 286ha
- Gioia del Colle · July 2025
- Inhabitants
- 518,953
- 3.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 21° · 63 % · 37 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 19° · 47 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 21° · 49 % · 44 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 18° · 39 % · 50 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 19° · 48 % · 43 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 22° · 50 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 20° · 55 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 19° · 42 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Laterza 14,771 inhabitants 475 ha · 3.0 %
- Martina Franca 10,177 inhabitants 450 ha · 1.5 %
- Castellaneta 16,181 inhabitants 196 ha · 0.8 %
- Grottaglie 30,587 inhabitants 184 ha · 1.8 %
- Mottola 15,310 inhabitants 126 ha · 0.6 %
- Statte 12,917 inhabitants 112 ha · 1.7 %
- Taranto 188,098 inhabitants 55 ha · 0.2 %
- Ginosa 21,820 inhabitants 38 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub41 %
- Other natural land37 %
- Agricultural areas21 %
- Coniferous forest0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Laterza475 ha
- 3×Martina Franca450 ha
- 3×Grottaglie184 ha
- 3×Taranto55 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 286 haGioia del ColleJuly 2025 · 2 days of 311 ha in total
- 247 haLaterzaJune 2021 · 2 days of 275 ha in total
- 235 haMartina FrancaJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 222 haMartina FrancaAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 137 haLaterzaJuly 2026 · 6 days of 159 ha in total
- 126 haMottolaJune 2025 · 1 day
- 124 haGrottaglieJune 2024 · 1 day
- 112 haStatteJune 2026 · 1 day
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 | 249 | Laterza 137 ha |
| 2025 | 4 | 672 | Gioia del Colle 286 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 232 | Grottaglie 124 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 247 | Laterza 247 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 235 | Martina Franca 235 ha |
All fires in Taranto · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 137 haLaterzaJuly 2026 · 6 days of 159 ha in total
- 112 haStatteJune 2026 · 1 day
- 222 haMartina FrancaAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 286 haGioia del ColleJuly 2025 · 2 days of 311 ha in total
- 38 haGinosaJuly 2025 · 1 day of 115 ha in total
- 126 haMottolaJune 2025 · 1 day
- 108 haMartina FrancaAugust 2024 · 1 day
- 124 haGrottaglieJune 2024 · 1 day
- 247 haLaterzaJune 2021 · 2 days of 275 ha in total
- 235 haMartina FrancaJuly 2017 · 1 day
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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