Paros fire, July 2026 Πάρου · Paros
The fire started on 28 July 2026 in Paros, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,160 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 3th largest in South Aegean since 2016 (of 25 with a page). Number 5 in Greece in 2026, of 28.
- Burnt area
- 1,160ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 28 Jul 2026 – 28 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 28 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 61
- in a single hotspot: 146 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.8GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
14% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 163 ha in 2018.
What happened to each town
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1,155 ha reached on 28 Jul6.3 %
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
- Sclerophyllous scrub75 %
- Agricultural areas25 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul | 30.7 °C | 49 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 29 Jul after | 29.8 °C | 48 % | 64 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 30 Jul after | 27.0 °C | 52 % | 78 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 31 Jul after | 26.6 °C | 58 % | 72 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 1 Aug after | 26.6 °C | 59 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Aug after | 26.8 °C | 65 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 3 Aug after | 27.4 °C | 60 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 4 Aug after | 29.0 °C | 51 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 5 Aug after | 29.0 °C | 51 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 6 Aug after | 28.1 °C | 62 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 7 Aug after | 28.6 °C | 59 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
Before and after, from space
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 31 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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)
Detections table · 61Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Paros fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 28 July 2026 and 28 July 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 1,160 hectares (11.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Paros (1,155 ha, 6.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 30.7 °C, humidity dropped to 49 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, class Moderate.
- 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.