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Wildfires in Trapani

Trapani, Italy: 74 fires with a page have entered 19 of its 24 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,270 hectares inside the region. The largest was Custonaci in 20 July 2025, with 5,540 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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

hectares burned
34,270ha
Since 2016
Of the region
14%
2,482 km²
fires
74
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
19
of 24
Largest fire
5,540ha
Custonaci · 20 July 2025
Inhabitants
372,175
92.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 22° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 56 % · 54 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 57 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 22° · 67 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 22° · 64 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 22° · 60 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 21° · 64 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 21° · 65 % · 37 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. San Vito Lo Capo 4,814 inhabitants 9,853 ha · 1.6×
  2. Custonaci 5,274 inhabitants 6,589 ha · 94 %
  3. Castellammare del Golfo 14,610 inhabitants 3,588 ha · 28 %
  4. Salemi 9,986 inhabitants 3,264 ha · 18 %
  5. Buseto Palizzolo 2,761 inhabitants 2,391 ha · 33 %
  6. Calatafimi-Segesta 6,127 inhabitants 1,502 ha · 9.7 %
  7. Trapani 1,444 ha · 8.0 %
  8. Poggioreale 1,303 inhabitants 1,286 ha · 34 %
  9. Erice 1,233 ha · 26 %
  10. Mazara del Vallo 50,039 inhabitants 833 ha · 3.0 %
  11. Pantelleria 7,352 inhabitants 717 ha · 8.5 %
  12. Alcamo 44,569 inhabitants 716 ha · 5.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land32 %
  • Agricultural areas29 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub27 %
  • Coniferous forest9.3 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.2 %

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
202692,116 Salemi 1,228 ha
202566,767 Custonaci 5,540 ha
20242225 Alcamo 116 ha
2023105,471 Salemi 1,571 ha
2022113,390 Buseto Palizzolo 1,553 ha
202161,910 Poggioreale 639 ha
202085,043 San Vito Lo Capo 3,057 ha
201971,330 Mazara del Vallo 328 ha
20181129 Buseto Palizzolo 129 ha
201796,417 Custonaci 3,200 ha
201661,513 Pantelleria 447 ha

All fires in Trapani · 75

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).