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Wildfires in Epicho Επιχό/Τζιχανγκίρ

Epicho, Cyprus, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2020: 84 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 27° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 27° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 26° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 26° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 27° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 48 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 51 % · 39 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

84
hectares burned
6.6 %
of its area
1
fires
13
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Epicho

  1. 84 ha Epicho fire, September 2020 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 304 ha in total · 1 day

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).