Puglia fire map
The Gargano promontory, the Salento peninsula and the Adriatic and Ionian coasts between them. Mostly flat and agricultural rather than densely forested, but the Gargano's pine forest carries fire fast.
What is happening in Puglia now
| Area | Status | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Gargano Peninsula (Puglia) | Active fire | Fires have hit the Gargano coast twice in a week, and Peschici and Vieste are both in the affected strip. |
| Lavello and the Vulture | Active fire | Fires ran through the stubble across the Vulture on 31 July, at Lavello, Melfi, Rionero and Filiano. |
| Lucera and the Tavoliere hills | Active fire | One of the six fires burning in the Foggia province on the evening of 28 July was in the Lucera district. |
| Minervino Murge, Coste Cirillo | Active fire | A woodland fire took hold at Coste Cirillo, above Minervino Murge, at around half past two on the afternoon of 10 August. |
| Polla and Petina, Vallo di Diano | Active fire | Two fires at Polla in two days. |
| Alta Murgia, between Altamura and Gravina | Active fire | Fire ran through pasture and woodland inside the Alta Murgia national park on Sunday 9 August, on the ground between Altamura and Gravina in Puglia. |
| Manfredonia, Lago Salso | Active fire | Reeds burned across the wetland south of Manfredonia on Tuesday 11 August, next to the Oasi Lago Salso nature reserve. |
| Rignano Garganico and the Gargano foothills | Watch | Fire broke out at Pescorosso between Rignano Garganico and San Marco in Lamis on the afternoon of 5 August, on the first shelf of the Gargano mountain. |
| Miglionico | Watch | Reports that the farmland and scrub around Miglionico were among the worst hit in the Matera area this summer, with cultivated ground and old olive trees lost. |
| Spinazzola and the Murgia | Watch | The Murgia around Minervino and Spinazzola had one of its worst runs of fire in July, ending in contrada Lama Cipolla on the Spinazzola side. |
| Foggia and the Incoronata wood | Under control | The fire in the sanctuary wood at the Incoronata was held by volunteers on 1 August, and nothing around it was closed at any point. |
| Parco della Murgia Materana, Matera | Under control | The fire that ran through the Murgia Tirlecchia side of the Parco della Murgia Materana on 29 July was reported under control the next day. |
| Monte Vulture, above Barile and Rionero | Stabilised | Fires ran through the Vulture on 31 July, with the worst of them at San Fele, where flames reached the edge of the town. |
| Castellaneta, contrada Santa Caterina | In recovery | Fire took seven hours to put out in the countryside at Castellaneta on the evening of Saturday 8 August, and reached close enough to houses for the mayor to say so afterwards. |
| Monte Castiglione, between Gravina in Puglia and Altamura | In recovery | A fire took hold at Monte Castiglione, inside the Alta Murgia park, on 9 August. |
| Marina di Pulsano | Nothing in force | A fire in the reeds off viale della Fontana at Marina di Pulsano burned four parked cars in front of the beach crowd on 2 August. |
| Lesina and the lake shore | Nothing in force | The only thing that ever went wrong here was three hours of stopped trains on 11 July, and the line has run since that evening. |
201 satellite fire detections inside Puglia in the latest NASA FIRMS pass (2026-08-15 to 2026-08-16). A detection is heat seen from orbit; it is not by itself a reported fire, and not every detection becomes one.
Where this comes from
Fire locations are NASA FIRMS satellite detections. Status for each area is set from what the named authority has published, never from satellite data alone — see how this site works.
If you are travelling
Conditions change hourly during a fire. The authorities above are always right where this page and they disagree, and in danger anywhere in the European Union the emergency number is 112.
Most serious status in Puglia right now: Active fire.