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Wildfires in Ypsonas Ύψωνας

Ypsonas, Cyprus, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 452 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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° · 28 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 27° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 26° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 72 % · 54 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 57 % · 39 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

452
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
4
fires
33
km²

How many times has Ypsonas burned?

Ypsonas has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Agios Therapon fire, July 2025, with 155 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
452
cumulative ha
23 Jul 2025
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 Ypsonas

  1. 155 ha Agios Therapon fire, July 2025 4.8% of the municipality · 12,437 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 14 ha Kato Polemidia fire, May 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 444 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 267 ha Ypsonas fire, May 2024 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 266 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 16 ha Erimi fire, May 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 115 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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