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Wildfires in Agios Vasileios Άγιος Βασίλειος

Agios Vasileios, Greece, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 10,454 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 88 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 90 % · 38 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 75 % · 60 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 65 % · 38 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 87 % · 53 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 13° · 65 % · 69 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 63 % · 69 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 65 % · 63 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

10,454
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
6
fires
355
km²

How many times has Agios Vasileios burned?

Agios Vasileios has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Agios Vasileios fire, 30 July 2026, with 1,205 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,454 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,163 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
10,454
cumulative ha
7,163
distinct ha

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 Greece →

Fires that entered Agios Vasileios

  1. 1,205 ha Agios Vasileios fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,086 ha Agios Vasileios fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 14% of the municipality · 5,331 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 236 ha Agios Vasileios fire, June 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,325 ha Agios Vasileios fire, July 2022 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 166 ha Agios Vasileios fire, October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 165 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,437 ha Agios Vasileios fire, July 2016 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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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