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06 August 2021 Italy is on fire. Overall, in 2020 there was an increase of 18.3% of the national territory burned, and of 8.1% of crimes ascertained between arson and negligent fires compared to 2019. And in total there are 62,623 hectares devoured by flames. 54.7% of the offenses detected are concentrated in Campania, Sicily, Calabria and Puglia. These are the data processed by Legambiente in an anticipation of the Ecomafia 2021 report.
The dossier
The fires that are devouring large portions of the Peninsula, in some cases, such as in Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria and Abruzzo, have reached extensions rarely observed before. For Legambiente "we are faced with the multiplication of events defined as extreme, since they exceed the control capacity, with an intensity greater than 10,000 kW / m and a propagation speed over 3 km / h. A worrying trend that is coupled with the 'increase recorded also for 2020 in the number of arsonists throughout the national territory ".
The budget
As many as 82% of the burned area and 54.7% of the crimes are concentrated in Campania, Sicily, Calabria and Puglia, followed a short distance away by Lazio. With Campania, specifically, which stands out for the number of offenses (705, 16.7% of the national total) and Sicily for the number of hectares destroyed by flames (36,321, 13.7%). The provincial ranking of fires that broke out in 2020 sees Cosenza, Salerno, Palermo, Foggia and Potenza in the first five places by number of ascertained crimes. A number of offenses that continues to increase overall and that adds up to the 81,464 already ascertained on the national territory between 2006 and 2019, underlines Legambiente.