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Wildfires in Greece

349 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 523,469 hectares burned across 175 municipalities.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus EFFIS

Greece, at this point in the year: 35,321 hectares, below the 2006–2025 average of 49,747.

2026 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–202550,720 ha

Worst year2023 174,773 ha

With a page here349 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	56	35,321	EFFIS
2025	69	47,819	EFFIS
2024	86	41,948	EFFIS
2023	56	174,773	EFFIS
2022	66	22,480	EFFIS
2021	85	130,744	EFFIS
2020	88	14,915	EFFIS
2019	53	10,736	EFFIS
2018	33	12,037	EFFIS
2017	57	20,041	EFFIS
2016	52	31,707	EFFIS
2015	27	11,613	EFFIS
2014	31	14,815	EFFIS
2013	32	19,762	EFFIS
2012	83	52,487	EFFIS
2011	80	35,713	EFFIS
2010	21	6,472	EFFIS
2009	46	42,807	EFFIS
2008	46	24,988	EFFIS
2007	139	271,715	EFFIS
2006	22	16,294	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026						327	28k	3k	2k	701			33,869	Mandra-Eidyllia 13,192 ha
2025						7k	12k	27k	187				46,489	Chios 7,914 ha
2024	400			275		7k	7k	16k	8k	254	477		39,647	Varnavas 10,971 ha
2023							52k	121k	209		504		173,621	Alexandroupolis 96,610 ha
2022			107	134		840	17k	545	138	1k	391		20,428	Soufliou 4,604 ha
2021				342	7k	296	5k	114k	2k	130			128,466	Evia 51,881 ha
2020						568	4k	3k	3k	946	110		11,358	Corinth 3,549 ha
2019		163	412				2k	5k	2k	403	372		9,154	Dirfys-Messapia 2,889 ha
2018	134		226			158	8k	944	609	791			11,347	Kineta 5,568 ha
2017				137			4k	11k	3k	360			18,451	Kythira 2,963 ha
2016				217	108	4k	14k	1k	9k	165	779	866	30,639	Chios 5,242 ha