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Wildfires in Simou Σίμου

Simou, Cyprus, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 130 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 26° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 24° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 24° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 24° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 68 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 85 % · 54 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 60 % · 42 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

130
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
2
fires
6
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Simou

  1. 8 ha Giolou fire, July 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 169 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 122 ha Drymou fire, September 2021 20% of the municipality · 530 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).