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Wildfires in Melini Μελίνη

Melini, Cyprus, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2021: 780 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 98% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 26° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 25° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 73 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 56 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 22° · 47 % · 50 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

780
hectares burned
98 %
of its area
1
fires
8
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Melini

  1. 780 ha Melini fire, July 2021 where it started 98% 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).