Italy Fire & Heat Status
Live picture: 418 deduped satellite heat locations in the last 24 h; 4 red and 9 orange weather alerts in force. Italian fire activity concentrates in the south and islands — Sicily, Sardinia, Puglia, Calabria — often alongside the summer's fiercest heat. Beach evacuations by boat (Puglia, July 2026) show how fast coastal fires move.
Current Italy fire and travel warnings
These are the same editorial warnings used on the home page, shown here beside the live country map so the map, country page and incident pages do not drift apart.
Live hotspot list
Tap any hotspot below to show it on the map. Official incident matches are shown where available; unmatched areas remain satellite heat clusters from the last 24 h, grouped by nearest locality, strongest first. The heat may be in countryside or industrial land outside the named place.
Sant'Alfio2 areas · extreme heat signal
Tolmezzo2 areas · very strong heat signal
Ceprano1 area · very strong heat signal
Genzano di Lucania1 area · strong heat signal
Zapponeta2 areas · strong heat signal
Torre de' Passeri1 area · strong heat signal
Varallo1 area · strong heat signal
Maierato1 area · strong heat signal
Coggiola1 area · strong heat signal
Castiglione Messer Marino1 area · strong heat signal
Biccari1 area · strong heat signal
Monterosso Calabro1 area · moderate heat signal
Fanna1 area · moderate heat signal
Alcamo1 area · moderate heat signal
Quarona1 area · moderate heat signal
Arnesano1 area · moderate heat signal
Pieve Vergonte1 area · moderate heat signal
Altamura1 area · moderate heat signal
Ciavolo1 area · moderate heat signal
Butera1 area · moderate heat signal
Tuturano1 area · moderate heat signal
Montemilone1 area · moderate heat signal
Foggia1 area · moderate heat signal
Canneto1 area · moderate heat signal
Lucera1 area · moderate heat signal
Mezzolombardo1 area · moderate heat signal
Belvedere Marittimo1 area · moderate heat signal
Rotondi1 area · moderate heat signal
Taranto1 area · moderate heat signal
Rizziconi1 area · moderate heat signal
Candela1 area · moderate heat signal
Villa Santina1 area · moderate heat signal
Ginosa1 area · moderate heat signal
Imola1 area · moderate heat signal
Belvedere Spinello1 area · low heat signal
San Lorenzo del Vallo1 area · low heat signal
Cortina d'Ampezzo1 area · low heat signal
Major wildfires in Italy right now
Sicily is still on a fire pre-alert, Sardinia is on orange, and the red heat warning is down to Bari alone
Sicily is holding at a pre-alert for fire. The regional civil protection department issued notice number 174 on 15 August, valid from midnight for the 24 hours of today, following notice 173 for the 24 hours of Saturday 15 August. It keeps the preallerta phase across the whole island and rates the fire danger medium in all nine provinces: Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa and Trapani. At that level the department's own wording is that the state of the vegetation is such that a fire would burn with high intensity and spread fast. It also carries a level 1 heat alert for Catania, Messina and Palermo, with perceived temperatures of 36, 37 and 35 degrees.
The heat is easing. The health ministry's heat-wave bulletin has one city on bollino rosso, level 3, for 16 August, and that is Bari. On 6 August every one of the 27 monitored cities was red. Level 3 means the heat can harm healthy, active people too, not only the frail. Move what you can to the early morning and treat the middle of the day as time indoors.
Sardinia publishes its own fire-danger bulletin every day, and today's, number 108, puts the island on code orange, high danger, with the regional operational phase set to attenzione rinforzata. That phrasing means what it says: if a fire starts and is not caught quickly, it can outgrow the ordinary ground crews and need the national air fleet. Read the day's bulletin before you go inland. Whatever the code says, the rules are the same: do not park on dry grass, and never drive into smoke to see what is on the other side.
One thing to plan around on the Gargano has nothing to do with fire. The SS 89 between Mattinata and Vieste has been shut since a large boulder came off the cliff above it on 5 December 2025. On 29 July the Puglia region, Anas and the Agenzia del Demanio settled who does what: Anas becomes the implementing body, taking on the design and the work to secure the rock face and reopen the road and funding the roadway itself, while the region and the property agency fund the work on the face. No reopening date has been given. If you are coming up the south side of the promontory, work out your route before you set off.
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Sicily & Sardinia
The two main islands, plus fires reported in Calabria, Puglia and central regions
Flights are reported running, but avoid rural, forest and coastal routes near active fires; follow Protezione Civile and 112, and never enter an evacuation zone. Extreme heat is in force.
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Check directly: Protezione Civile · Servizio Meteo AM
Full incident pageThe named event, its traveller guidance and official sourcesThis is traveller-focused editorial from the daily morning run, and every claim in it is checked against an official source before it is published; the official sources above are always the authority. In danger anywhere in the EU, call 112.