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Agios Georgios fire, July 2017 Agios Georgios, Mamonia, Stavrokonnou

Out · last measured on 15 Jul 2017

The fire started on 14 July 2017 in Agios Georgios, Cyprus, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 149 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 10th largest in Paphos since 2016 (of 13 with a page). Number 2 in Cyprus in 2017, of 3.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
149ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
14 Jul 2017 – 15 Jul 2017
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
14 Jul
2017
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Natura 2000
3%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
31km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Agios Georgios where it started
    73 ha
    15 %
  2. Mamonia Μαμώνια 51 inhabitants · 0.4 km from the town
    49 ha
    6.1 %
  3. Stavrokonnou Σταυροκόννου 56 inhabitants · 1.4 km from the town
    27 ha
    2.9 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land51 %
  • Agricultural areas49 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 3 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
14 Jul 32.5 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
15 Jul 32.5 °C 44 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Jul after 31.2 °C 56 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Jul after 31.3 °C 60 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
18 Jul after 33.0 °C 42 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Jul after 29.6 °C 42 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Jul after 28.9 °C 62 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
21 Jul after 29.5 °C 67 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
22 Jul after 30.3 °C 61 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
23 Jul after 31.4 °C 60 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
24 Jul after 33.4 °C 50 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
25 Jul after 34.1 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 7 Jul 2017
After · 22 Jul 2017

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 15 July 2017 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM1028 µg/m³
12131415161718
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Agios Georgios fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 July 2017 and 15 July 2017: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 149 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Agios Georgios (73 ha, 15 %); Mamonia (49 ha, 6.1 %); Stavrokonnou (27 ha, 2.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.4 km of Mamonia. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Cyprus (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112 · 1407

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.