Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento destination risk · checked against official sources 16 August 2026 at 09:47 UK time
Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento Wildfire Risk: Should I Travel?
A fire on the SS118 between Agrigento and Raffadali on 28 July burned olive groves and vineyards and reached farm buildings. There is newer burnt ground here that nobody has written about.
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What is still disrupted in Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento
Checked against Giornale Centro Sicilia, 28 July 2026 on 2026-08-08. Conditions change daily during and after a fire, and the source below is the authority.
- Check locally: Fire in contrada Borsellino on the SS118 between Agrigento and Raffadali on 28 July. No stage has been declared. No Sicilian civil protection notice and no fire service bulletin has named Raffadali or said what stage this fire reached, so there is no authority word to record. (as of 2026-07-28)
- Advice in force: No closure reported on the SS118 between Agrigento and Raffadali. The fire burned alongside the state road and reached farm buildings. Neither outlet reported the road shut. (as of 2026-07-28)
- Advice in force: No evacuation reported at Raffadali or Montaperto. Animals were brought out of the affected farms. No residents were reported moved. (as of 2026-07-28)
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Nothing here has been reported closed
No road closure was reported on the SS118 or anywhere else, and no evacuation was reported.Farms took the damage
More than fifty producing olive trees and two vineyards were destroyed on 28 July and the flames reached rural houses and farm buildings, damaging one.Arson is suspected
Both outlets reported investigators working on the view that the fire was set in several places at once. No finding has been published.Why this page reads watch
There is burnt ground here dated 2 August that no published account names, and no authority has given this fire a stage.Nearby alternatives to compare
- The town of Agrigento was not the fire ground. Smoke columns were reported visible from the centre, which is a different thing.
- The reported fire ground is contrada Borsellino, near Montaperto, rather than Raffadali itself.
- The SS118 was reported with fire alongside it, not closed.
Not spreading, still dangerous in Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento
The fire near Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento is not growing, but still dangerous. Stabilised is a fire service term and it does not mean out, or safe: it means the fire is being held rather than growing. Crews, closures and evacuation orders can all still be in place, and wind can change the picture within hours. Check the official sources below before you travel, and follow local authorities over this page.
How we reached this: the status moved on time, not on a source. There was no satellite heat and no confirmed burnt area near Raffadali and the SS118 above Agrigento for a run of consecutive days (from 2026-08-10). No official statement has confirmed anything either way, so treat it as the absence of a signal rather than an all-clear, and check the official sources below before you rely on it.
Sources used for this page
- Giornale Centro Sicilia, 28 July 2026, fire on the statale 118, olive groves and vineyards destroyed
- Scrivo Libero, 28 July 2026, olive groves, vineyards and farmhouses alight at the gates of Agrigento, arson investigated
- Dipartimento Regionale della Protezione Civile, Regione Siciliana, daily wildfire and heat wave notices, number 166 of 7 August 2026
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