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CY · Cyprus · Nicosia Municipality · 480 inhabitants

Wildfires in Farmakas Φαρμακάς

Farmakas, Cyprus, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 216 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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. Sun 25 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 71 % · 26 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

216
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
2
fires
16
km²

How many times has Farmakas burned?

Farmakas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Farmakas fire, June 2024, with 214 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
216
cumulative ha
20 Jun 2024
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Cyprus →

Fires that entered Farmakas

  1. 214 ha Farmakas fire, June 2024 where it started 13% of the municipality · 255 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2 ha Melini fire, July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,627 ha in total · 2 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).

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