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Italy · recorded travel disruption

Travel disruption recorded in Italy

Roads, rail, accommodation, evacuations and access closures, by area, in the words of the authority that announced them.

This page is assembled from the Italy area records on this site. It is not a live check: every line carries the date it was recorded, and the official source for each area is listed at the foot of the page. Those sources are the authority. In danger anywhere in the EU, call 112.

181recorded restrictions not yet lifted
74areas they are recorded in
26reopened or lifted, listed at the foot

Evacuations and returns home

Roads

Rail

Campsites, hotels and holiday accommodation

Power and water

Access closures: forests, beaches, trails and water

Smoke and air

What the authorities have said

The fires themselves

Reopened or lifted: 26 recorded items

Evacuations and returns home

  • No evacuation has been ordered at Premana.

    Nobody has been moved out of a home at any point in this fire. The restriction is on the mountain road and the paths above the village.

    Premana and the Alpe Caprecolo · Recorded 8 August 2026

  • Care home at Padriciano protected, evacuation prepared and not used.

    A fire service squad was posted at the Padriciano care home again on 6 August as a precaution. No evacuation was ordered, either then or when the same plan was prepared at the start of the month.

    Opicina and the Trieste Carso · Recorded 7 August 2026

  • No evacuation was reported at Foggia.

    Neither the Incoronata fire nor the round of fires across the province at the end of July produced a reported evacuation in the Foggia district.

    Foggia and the Incoronata wood · Recorded 1 August 2026

  • Beaches, campsites and holiday villages between Peschici and Vieste.

    Cleared on 26 July as the fire reached the bays; several hundred people were moved and some were taken off the beaches by coast guard boats, with around 300 brought round to Vieste by sea and put up in council buildings. Peschici's mayor said afterwards that tourists had returned to their accommodation.

    Gargano Peninsula (Puglia) · Recorded 28 July 2026

  • Beach clubs, campsites and a care home at Campomarino Lido.

    Beach clubs and campsites were cleared and 21 residents of the Villa San Gerardo care home, including people with limited mobility, were moved out as the fire approached. All were back the same day and no further clearance has been reported.

    Molise Coast and the Adriatic Route (Termoli) · Recorded 26 July 2026

  • Residents taken out of the outskirts of Butera were able to go home.

    People from the outlying areas sheltered in the Chiesa Madre and the church at Santa Maria di Gesù while the fire burned. The emergency was declared over on 20 July.

    Butera · Recorded 20 July 2026

  • No evacuation was ordered at Papanice.

    Houses and farm buildings were reached and held. No account of 10 July records anyone being moved out, and none has been published since.

    Papanice and the Crotone countryside · Recorded 10 July 2026

Roads

  • No road closure has been reported on the Latina shore.

    Accounts of 6, 7 and 8 August deal with the buildings and the vegetation. None names a road, beach or lido as shut.

    The Latina shore at Prato di Coppola · Recorded 10 August 2026

  • A2 at Firmo reopened after the 1 August smoke closure.

    Closed by highway police at 14:31 on 1 August because smoke destroyed visibility. The closure was temporary: Anas reported the A2 carrying heavy exodus traffic without incident over the 1 to 2 August weekend.

    Pollino and the A2 through Calabria · Recorded 3 August 2026

  • Coast road between Peschici and Vieste (SP 52).

    Closed on 26 July while the fire was burning, with local buses diverted onto the SS 89 between Peschici and Vieste. Reopened once the fire was out and traffic across the Gargano was reported back to normal on 27 July.

    Gargano Peninsula (Puglia) · Recorded 27 July 2026

  • SS 693 dei Laghi di Lesina e Varano at Cagnano Varano.

    Anas closed a stretch on 26 July and signposted a diversion. Roads across the Gargano were reported reopened the following day; a fire flared again on the same hillside on 31 July but no further closure of this road was reported.

    Gargano Peninsula (Puglia) · Recorded 27 July 2026

  • SS 16 between Chieuti and Campomarino.

    Closed in the early afternoon of 26 July because of smoke across the carriageway, and reopened the same evening.

    Molise Coast and the Adriatic Route (Termoli) · Recorded 26 July 2026

  • Earlier A2 closure between Morano Calabro and Frascineto.

    The southbound carriageway was closed on 20 July for a Pollino fire, with traffic diverted at the Morano Calabro, Frascineto and Sibari exits.

    Pollino and the A2 through Calabria · Recorded 20 July 2026

  • Roads through Butera reopened.

    Viability was reported restored on 20 July once the fire was beaten.

    Butera · Recorded 20 July 2026

  • SS18 closed and reopened on 16 July.

    The road was shut at Sant'Eufemia while the fire in a roadside nursery was fought, and reopened once operations finished. ANAS staff were on site.

    Sant'Eufemia and Lamezia Terme · Recorded 16 July 2026

  • No road was closed at Lesina.

    Every account of 11 July deals with the railway alone. None names a road closure or anyone moved out.

    Lesina and the lake shore · Recorded 11 July 2026

  • Via Adda and the SP 52 stayed open.

    Smoke and flames crossed both on 10 July and the fire service worked from them. Neither was reported shut in any account of the day.

    Papanice and the Crotone countryside · Recorded 10 July 2026

  • SS131 DCN at kilometre 100, Oreo locality, traffic interrupted during a roadside fire.

    Fire in vegetation beside the trunk road spread quickly in wind and heat and traffic was stopped while a helicopter worked it from the air. No closure has been reported on this road since.

    Siniscola and the Baronia coast · Recorded 14 June 2026

Rail

  • Tropea line running normally again.

    RFI restored normal running at midday on 27 July after the two suspensions on the Parghelia to Briatico section, north of Tropea.

    Tropea and Capo Vaticano · Recorded 3 August 2026

  • Adriatic line between Termoli and Campomarino.

    Suspended from around one in the afternoon on 26 July when the fire reached the track. Rail traffic on the Pescara to Bari line resumed progressively from just after seven that evening after safety checks.

    Molise Coast and the Adriatic Route (Termoli) · Recorded 26 July 2026

  • Pescara to Bari line between Lesina and Apricena.

    Suspended from a quarter to six on the afternoon of 11 July so the fire service could work safely beside the track. Traffic resumed at about ten to eight the same evening and remained heavily slowed, with delays reported well over an hour.

    Lesina and the lake shore · Recorded 11 July 2026

Campsites, hotels and holiday accommodation

  • No beach or seafront closure at Marina di Pulsano.

    The beach was busy at the time of the fire and no closure of the beach or the coast road was reported.

    Marina di Pulsano · Recorded 2 August 2026

Power and water

  • Water supply cut in the southern part of Pieve Vergonte overnight on 9 August, restored at six on 10 August.

    The comune ordered the interruption from 23.45 on Sunday 9 August to 06.00 on Monday 10 August, in its own words to secure the water reserves needed for the firefighting.

    Piedimulera and Pieve Vergonte, Val d'Ossola · Recorded 10 August 2026

  • Water supply to the San Paolo district cut during the July fires and restored.

    The district lost service while the fire was fought and the regional forestry corps brought in thirty cubic metres of water to restore it.

    Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto · Recorded 20 July 2026

Access closures: forests, beaches, trails and water

  • The sanctuary and the wood were not closed.

    No closure of the sanctuary, the wood, its tracks or any road near it appears in either account, and no comune or park authority has published one.

    Foggia and the Incoronata wood · Recorded 8 August 2026

  • New fires on 31 July at Vieste, Cagnano Varano and San Marco in Lamis.

    Fire broke out in the Carabella pine wood behind Lungomare Europa at Vieste, next to a hotel, and some houses there were cleared. A farm stay near San Marco in Lamis was evacuated with about twenty people inside, and water bombers also worked the hills above Lake Varano. The Vieste fire was under control the same day and no road or rail closure was reported.

    Gargano Peninsula (Puglia) · Recorded 31 July 2026

Where these records come from

One official source per area, as recorded with the items above.

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