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Wildfires in Italy

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 61,630 km² of Italy at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 9,880 km², ranking 66th of 200 countries.

9,880 km²detected in an average year
2017busiest year, 15,220 km²
2018quietest year, 6,020 km²
Augustpeak month, 23% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 14,820 km2'122013: 8,400 km2'132014: 9,050 km2'142015: 8,520 km2'152016: 9,510 km2'162017: 15,220 km2'172018: 6,020 km2'182019: 9,660 km2'192020: 9,350 km2'202021: 12,150 km2'212022: 8,370 km2'222023: 10,950 km2'232024: 6,280 km2'242025: 9,970 km2'2515,220 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2017, with 15,220 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 6,020 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.1% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 2.0%JFebruary: 2.6%FMarch: 4.7%MApril: 4.8%AMay: 5.2%MJune: 11%JJuly: 21%JAugust: 23%ASeptember: 14%SOctober: 7.4%ONovember: 2.5%NDecember: 2.1%D23%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 July 2023, with detections in 685 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 61,630 km² with at least one detection, 30% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year30,32049%
2 years12,90021%
3 to 5 years14,68024%
6 to 10 years3,3405.4%
11 years or more3940.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.75, 17.25 and holds 6.0% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201214,82024,592
20138,40015,815
20149,05016,778
20158,52015,352
20169,51016,388
201715,22025,737
20186,02011,970
20199,66017,044
20209,35016,400
202112,15020,924
20228,37015,289
202310,95018,236
20246,28011,240
20259,97016,695

Nearby countries

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Nearby countries

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Fire near holiday places, with the sea, the sun and the bathing water: Amalfi Coast · Naples · Puglia · Rome · Sardinia · Sicily · Tuscany · Venice

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.