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Wildfires in Catania
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 2,590 km² of Catania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 492 km², ranking 4th of 110 regions of Italy.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2017, with 710 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 303 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.3% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
June, July and August together hold 56% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 August 2021, with detections in 74 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,590 km² with at least one detection, 42% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 851 | 33% |
| 2 years | 649 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 887 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 176 | 6.8% |
| 11 years or more | 22 | 0.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.75, 15.25 and holds 30% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 587 | 1,058 |
| 2013 | 446 | 936 |
| 2014 | 676 | 1,638 |
| 2015 | 428 | 737 |
| 2016 | 438 | 870 |
| 2017 | 710 | 1,467 |
| 2018 | 340 | 709 |
| 2019 | 499 | 1,041 |
| 2020 | 380 | 940 |
| 2021 | 672 | 1,929 |
| 2022 | 377 | 1,066 |
| 2023 | 544 | 1,061 |
| 2024 | 303 | 765 |
| 2025 | 490 | 1,123 |
Other regions of Italy
- Foggia847 km² in an average year
- Palermo608 km² in an average year
- Agrigento590 km² in an average year
- Caltanissetta460 km² in an average year
- Cosenza424 km² in an average year
- Trapani422 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
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 regions
- Syracuse55 km
- Reggio Calabria70 km
- Caltanissetta104 km
- Enna104 km
- Messina111 km
- Ragusa119 km