The fire started on 3 August 2021 in East Mani, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 11,209 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the largest fire in Peloponnese since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 3 in Greece in 2021, of 45.
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
The press and agencies we checked give 10,470 ha.
3 Aug 2021 to 11 Aug 2021: first and last day with fire on the page.
Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 379 MW.
There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
Total radiative power on 6 August 2021; hotspots that day: 438.
Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 27.
This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
High of 42.4 °C and minimum humidity of 13% on 3 August 2021; gusts of 62 km/h on 6 August 2021.
These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 42.4 | 28.7 | 13 | 8.7 | 33.1 | 0 | 55.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2021-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 40.7 | 26.5 | 13 | 6.5 | 37.8 | 0 | 52.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2021-08-05 | 4 | 45 | 41.1 | 28.1 | 7 | 11.8 | 52.9 | 0 | 56.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2021-08-06 | 438 | 19,005 | 35.1 | 25.2 | 9 | 19.1 | 62.3 | 0 | 70.4 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2021-08-07 | 8 | 72 | 33 | 24 | 36 | 14.8 | 52.9 | 0 | 37.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-08 | 3 | 13 | 33.3 | 21.5 | 35 | 7.4 | 33.1 | 0 | 37.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-09 | 6 | 86 | 35 | 22.7 | 35 | 7.6 | 31.7 | 0 | 40.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 24.9 | 33 | 8.4 | 33.8 | 0 | 42.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 24.9 | 33 | 8.2 | 36 | 0.3 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 34.4 | 25.7 | 33 | 12.7 | 42.5 | 1.2 | 46.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
It is generated in your browser from this page’s data: one file per fire, aggregated by day and without individual hotspots.
It updates itself while the fire is still active and links to this page. Free, with the attribution shown at the bottom.
Sources for this page: EFFIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), ERA5 (ECMWF/Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
It had gone 27 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 12 Aug.
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 35 ha in 2016, 23 ha in 2020.
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Athens boundary: geoBoundaries · geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 24 %
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.
We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
Official figures are measured differently from satellite ones and sometimes cover only part of the fire.
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)
Started with Extreme FWI: 64 % of the area in Greece
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Aug | 42.4 °C | 13 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 4 Aug | 40.7 °C | 13 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 5 Aug | 41.1 °C | 7 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 6 Aug | 35.1 °C | 9 % | 62 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 70 |
| 7 Aug | 33.0 °C | 36 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 8 Aug | 33.3 °C | 35 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 9 Aug | 35.0 °C | 35 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 10 Aug | 36.2 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 11 Aug | 36.2 °C | 33 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 40 |
| 12 Aug after | 34.4 °C | 33 % | 42 km/h | 1.2 mm | Very high 46 |
It started with an FWI of 55.3, a minimum humidity of 13% and 27 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 7.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.9 mm on 25 Jul.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 16 Sept.
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 7. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
It was considered over on 11 Aug, and on 12 Aug 1.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
On 6 August 2021 the air beside the fire reached 57 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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)
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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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 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
No changes since 24 October 2026.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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.