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Wildfires in Akanthou

Akanthou, Cyprus, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2022: 859 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 25° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 25° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 24° · 75 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 23° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 77 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 63 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 60 % · 43 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

859
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
1
fires
81
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Akanthou

  1. 859 ha Akanthou fire, June 2022 where it started 11% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia, Cyprus Department of Land Registry and Geometry (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).