https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italian authorities on Friday evacuated some 3,500 people in the Tuscany region as they tried to tame a wildfire that has been raging for more than 24 hours. https://www.thelocal.it/20260501/thousands-flee-tuscany-wildfire Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:18 +0200 thousands-flee-tuscany-wildfire Italy's wildfire season started more than a month earlier than usual this year, with forecasters warning of dangerous situation in southern regions with a hot, dry May to come. https://www.thelocal.it/20260430/italys-wildfire-season-starts-early-as-hot-dry-may-forecast-for-south Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:39:53 +0200 italys-wildfire-season-starts-early-as-hot-dry-may-forecast-for-south Wildfires have so far ravaged more than one million hectares of land in European Union countries this year, a record since recording began in 2006, according to AFP analysis of official data. https://www.thelocal.it/20250822/record-eu-wildfires-burnt-more-than-1mn-hectares-in-2025 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:56:46 +0200 record-eu-wildfires-burnt-more-than-1mn-hectares-in-2025 Wildfires continue to ravage Italy this summer, with more alerts issued in hard-hit areas of the south on Wednesday amid heatwave conditions. https://www.thelocal.it/20250813/italys-wildfire-damage-already-worse-than-last-year-as-more-warnings-issued Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:18:22 +0200 italys-wildfire-damage-already-worse-than-last-year-as-more-warnings-issued All hiking routes on Italy’s Mount Vesuvius remained closed to tourists on Monday, as a devastating wildfire continued to ravage the volcano’s slopes. https://www.thelocal.it/20250810/italys-mount-vesuvius-closed-to-tourists-over-wildfire Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:32:22 +0200 italys-mount-vesuvius-closed-to-tourists-over-wildfire Public transport was disrupted and traffic diverted on Wednesday afternoon due to thick smoke after a fire broke out in the Malagrotta area between Rome and Ostia. https://www.thelocal.it/20240717/latest-road-closures-as-major-fire-breaks-out-west-of-rome Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:04:26 +0200 latest-road-closures-as-major-fire-breaks-out-west-of-rome Europe's blistering summer may not be over yet, but 2022 is already breaking records, with nearly 660,000 hectares ravaged since January, according to the EU's satellite monitoring service. https://www.thelocal.it/20220814/2022-sees-record-wildfire-destruction-in-europe-eu Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:47:15 +0200 2022-sees-record-wildfire-destruction-in-europe-eu After her own home was threatened by wildfires this week, reporter Silvia Marchetti says more could be done to stop the inferno that ravages Italy every summer. https://www.thelocal.it/20220722/opinion-italy-is-burning-but-many-wildfires-could-be-prevented Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:41:30 +0200 opinion-italy-is-burning-but-many-wildfires-could-be-prevented Italy faced the hottest day of the current heatwave on Friday with extreme heat warnings issued for 16 cities, as firefighters battled blazes up and down the country. https://www.thelocal.it/20220722/italy-heatwave-peaks-with-16-cities-on-red-alert-as-tuscany-burns Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:38:33 +0200 italy-heatwave-peaks-with-16-cities-on-red-alert-as-tuscany-burns Thick clouds of smoke were reported over the Italian capital on Monday afternoon as a large wildfire took hold on the north-western edge of the city. https://www.thelocal.it/20220627/breaking-two-hospitalised-as-wildfire-spreads-near-rome Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:22:49 +0200 breaking-two-hospitalised-as-wildfire-spreads-near-rome Italy's civil protection service has issued health and wildfire alerts for the coming days, as another intense wave of hot air from the south is expected to bring some of the highest temperatures on record. https://www.thelocal.it/20210809/heatwave-italy-issues-wildfire-warnings-as-hottest-week-arrives Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:25:52 +0200 heatwave-italy-issues-wildfire-warnings-as-hottest-week-arrives More than 70 percent of the fires devastating Italy this summer are caused by human action, and most are set intentionally, a government minister said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20210805/human-action-responsible-for-70-percent-of-italys-wildfires-minister-says Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:02:38 +0200 human-action-responsible-for-70-percent-of-italys-wildfires-minister-says Italy's fire brigade recorded hundreds of incidents this weekend, mainly in the south, as red alerts were issued for high temperatures on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20210801/wildfires-in-italy-over-800-flare-ups-recorded-this-weekend Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:06:39 +0200 wildfires-in-italy-over-800-flare-ups-recorded-this-weekend Two Italian students have been told to pay a joint fine of €27 million, Italian media reported on Wednesday, after being accused of letting a barbecue start a forest fire. https://www.thelocal.it/20190418/italian-students-fined-27-million-barbecue-forest-fire Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:28:19 +0200 italian-students-fined-27-million-barbecue-forest-fire Several houses have been destroyed and a section of motorway closed this morning as wildfires blazed on the hills around Genoa. https://www.thelocal.it/20190326/residents-evacuated-as-wildfires-take-hold-near-genoa Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:47:26 +0100 residents-evacuated-as-wildfires-take-hold-near-genoa 500 people were evacuated from their homes Monday night as a powerful forest fire struck the commune of Calci near Pisa. https://www.thelocal.it/20180925/500-evacuated-as-forest-fire-strikes-pisano Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:45:00 +0200 500-evacuated-as-forest-fire-strikes-pisano Most of the island of Sardinia remained on alert for wildfires on Thursday, following a heatwave across Europe that has led to deadly and destructive blazes elsewhere on the continent. https://www.thelocal.it/20180726/italy-on-alert-for-forest-fires-after-deadly-summer-across-europe Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:53:52 +0200 italy-on-alert-for-forest-fires-after-deadly-summer-across-europe Italian forests destroyed in wildfires this summer will take at least 15 years to regrow, according to the national farmers’ association. https://www.thelocal.it/20171121/italy-forests-wildfires Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:21:04 +0100 italy-forests-wildfires Some 600 people have been evacuated from their homes in the Val de Susa area of Piedmont as firefighters continue to battle wildfires. https://www.thelocal.it/20171030/600-evacuated-as-wildfires-continue-in-piemonte Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:26:51 +0100 600-evacuated-as-wildfires-continue-in-piemonte Can a forest be fascist? This may seem a facetious question, but it is one that Italians have been discussing of late due to a fire that occurred at the end of August. https://www.thelocal.it/20171010/into-the-fascist-forest-a-real-italian-controversy-mussolini Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:33:18 +0200 into-the-fascist-forest-a-real-italian-controversy-mussolini