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Wildfires in Karpaseia Καρπάσια/Κάρπασα

Karpaseia, Cyprus, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 204 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Mon 26 Low 24° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 89 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 86 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 21° · 93 % · 30 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

204
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
2
fires
7
km²

How many times has Karpaseia burned?

Karpaseia has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Diorios fire, May 2020, with 186 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 204 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 186 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
204
cumulative ha
186
distinct ha

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 Karpaseia

  1. 186 ha Diorios fire, May 2020 27% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 18 ha Asomatos Keryneias fire, July 2017 2.7% of the municipality · 353 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).

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