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Wildfires in Ora Ορά

Ora, Cyprus, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,102 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% 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° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 70 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 77 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very 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

1,102
hectares burned
70 %
of its area
2
fires
16
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ora

  1. 984 ha Melini fire, July 2021 63% of the municipality · 4,627 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 118 ha Ora fire, July 2017 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 117 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).