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Dorida fire, August 2026 Δωρίδος · Dorida

Out · last detection 1 Aug 2026, 12:42 UTC

The fire started on 1 August 2026 in Dorida, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 462 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 26th largest in Central Greece since 2016 (of 53 with a page). Number 13 in Greece in 2026, of 28.

Burnt area
462ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
1 Aug 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
1 Aug
2026
Heat detections
20
in a single hotspot: 112 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Aug1 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

1

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

31°high
45km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 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. Dorida Δωρίδος where it started
    462 ha reached on 1 Aug
    0.5 %

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

  • Agricultural areas81 %
  • Mixed forest7.7 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub5.9 %
  • Other natural land4.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.1 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 0 %

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)
1 Aug 31.1 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
2 Aug after 31.1 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Aug after 32.4 °C 29 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Aug after 33.8 °C 27 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Aug after 34.7 °C 24 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
6 Aug after 34.0 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Aug after 34.3 °C 28 % 11 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Aug after 35.0 °C 28 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Aug after 33.5 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Aug after 32.7 °C 39 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
11 Aug after 34.0 °C 28 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Jul 2026
After · 8 Aug 2026

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 3 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1036 µg/m³
Optical depth0.41
30311234
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)

Detections table · 20Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dorida fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 August 2026 and 1 August 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 462 hectares (4.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dorida (462 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Greece (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 · 199

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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 ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.