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Municipalities that have burned most often in Greece

Municipalities of Greece with at least one fire larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 174. With two or more: 104. Top of the list is Thebes, which has burned 10 times in 4 years, with 11,122 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1ThebesCentral Greece10×4 years · 11,122 ha
  2. 2West AchaeaWestern Greece9×8 years · 6,100 ha
  3. 3KarystosCentral Greece9×5 years · 5,768 ha
  4. 4ZakynthosIonian Islands9×5 years · 4,496 ha
  5. 5CephaloniaIonian Islands9×6 years · 2,115 ha
  6. 6MegaraAttica8×7 years · 15,713 ha
  7. 7Dirfys-MessapiaCentral Greece7×7 years · 4,930 ha
  8. 8Lesbos7×3 years · 3,495 ha
  9. 9FarsalaThessaly7×5 years · 1,426 ha
  10. 10Mandra-EidylliaAttica6×4 years · 23,562 ha
  11. 11Agios VasileiosCrete6×4 years · 10,454 ha
  12. 12LavreotikiAttica6×5 years · 4,663 ha
  13. 13CorinthPeloponnese6×4 years · 4,380 ha
  14. 14Kymi-AliveriCentral Greece6×4 years · 2,454 ha
  15. 15IerapetraCrete6×4 years · 1,523 ha
  16. 16AndrosSouth Aegean6×5 years · 1,318 ha
  17. 17IlidaWestern Greece6×5 years · 595 ha
  18. 18AlexandroupolisEastern Macedonia and Thrace5×2 years · 59,603 ha
  19. 19SoufliouEastern Macedonia and Thrace5×5 years · 43,045 ha
  20. 20ChiosNorth Aegean5×3 years · 20,892 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1AlexandroupolisEastern Macedonia and Thrace59,603 ha5× · 51 %
  2. 2SoufliouEastern Macedonia and Thrace43,045 ha5× · 33 %
  3. 3Mantoudi-Limni-Agia AnnaCentral Greece33,200 ha2× · 56 %
  4. 4Mandra-EidylliaAttica23,562 ha6× · 56 %
  5. 5RhodesSouth Aegean21,598 ha3× · 15 %
  6. 6ChiosNorth Aegean20,892 ha5× · 25 %
  7. 7Istiaia-AidipsosCentral Greece20,611 ha1× · 41 %
  8. 8MegaraAttica15,713 ha8× · 49 %
  9. 9East ManiPeloponnese15,549 ha4× · 24 %
  10. 10ThebesCentral Greece11,122 ha10× · 13 %
  11. 11Agios VasileiosCrete10,454 ha6× · 29 %
  12. 12OlympiaWestern Greece9,917 ha4× · 15 %
  13. 13ThassouEastern Macedonia and Thrace9,405 ha4× · 25 %
  14. 14Xylokastro-EvrostinaPeloponnese8,533 ha2× · 17 %
  15. 15OroposAttica8,274 ha5× · 24 %
  16. 16PyrgosWestern Greece7,177 ha4× · 15 %
  17. 17MarathonAttica6,362 ha3× · 29 %
  18. 18KythiraAttica6,219 ha2× · 19 %
  19. 19West AchaeaWestern Greece6,100 ha9× · 9.0 %
  20. 20KarystosCentral Greece5,768 ha9× · 8.5 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1PenteliAttica74 %2,580 ha · 35 km²
  2. 2Mantoudi-Limni-Agia AnnaCentral Greece56 %33,200 ha · 588 km²
  3. 3Mandra-EidylliaAttica56 %23,562 ha · 424 km²
  4. 4AlexandroupolisEastern Macedonia and Thrace51 %59,603 ha · 1,180 km²
  5. 5DionysosAttica50 %3,225 ha · 65 km²
  6. 6MegaraAttica49 %15,713 ha · 320 km²
  7. 7Istiaia-AidipsosCentral Greece41 %20,611 ha · 502 km²
  8. 8FyliAttica40 %4,330 ha · 108 km²
  9. 9Rafina-PikermiAttica34 %1,391 ha · 41 km²
  10. 10SaronikosAttica34 %3,974 ha · 118 km²
  11. 11SoufliouEastern Macedonia and Thrace33 %43,045 ha · 1,304 km²
  12. 12AcharnesAttica32 %4,790 ha · 148 km²
  13. 13Agios VasileiosCrete29 %10,454 ha · 355 km²
  14. 14MarathonAttica29 %6,362 ha · 221 km²
  15. 15PalliniAttica28 %841 ha · 30 km²
  16. 16LavreotikiAttica27 %4,663 ha · 173 km²
  17. 17ChiosNorth Aegean25 %20,892 ha · 843 km²
  18. 18ThassouEastern Macedonia and Thrace25 %9,405 ha · 381 km²
  19. 19OroposAttica24 %8,274 ha · 338 km²
  20. 20East ManiPeloponnese24 %15,549 ha · 654 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.