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Wildfires in Palermo
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 3,390 km² of Palermo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 608 km², ranking 2nd 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 2012, with 1,140 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 190 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.0% 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.
July, August and September together hold 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 July 2023, with detections in 201 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,390 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,350 | 40% |
| 2 years | 777 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 975 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 281 | 8.3% |
| 11 years or more | 4.9 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.75, 13.25 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,140 | 1,393 |
| 2013 | 344 | 378 |
| 2014 | 837 | 987 |
| 2015 | 297 | 327 |
| 2016 | 614 | 727 |
| 2017 | 638 | 726 |
| 2018 | 305 | 338 |
| 2019 | 620 | 723 |
| 2020 | 712 | 831 |
| 2021 | 741 | 865 |
| 2022 | 606 | 703 |
| 2023 | 1,010 | 1,213 |
| 2024 | 190 | 211 |
| 2025 | 453 | 530 |
Other regions of Italy
- Foggia847 km² in an average year
- Agrigento590 km² in an average year
- Catania492 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.