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Wildfires in Syracuse
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 1,270 km² of Syracuse at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 208 km², ranking 14th 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 284 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 130 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 July 2017, with detections in 41 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,270 km² with at least one detection, 32% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 525 | 41% |
| 2 years | 346 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 348 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 46 | 3.6% |
| 11 years or more | 8.9 | 0.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, 15.25 and holds 66% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 263 | 479 |
| 2013 | 165 | 354 |
| 2014 | 269 | 479 |
| 2015 | 153 | 408 |
| 2016 | 210 | 400 |
| 2017 | 284 | 579 |
| 2018 | 158 | 336 |
| 2019 | 203 | 401 |
| 2020 | 185 | 416 |
| 2021 | 272 | 495 |
| 2022 | 181 | 424 |
| 2023 | 219 | 480 |
| 2024 | 130 | 327 |
| 2025 | 214 | 373 |
Other regions of Italy
- Foggia847 km² in an average year
- Palermo608 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
- 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
- Catania55 km
- Ragusa71 km
- Caltanissetta88 km
- Enna88 km
- Reggio Calabria119 km
- Agrigento132 km