Wildfires in Chios Δημοτική Ενότητα ΧΙΟΥ
Chios, Greece, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 20,892 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 68 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 20° · 67 % · 20 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 20° · 63 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 18° · 89 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 14° · 89 % · 39 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 65 % · 67 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 13° · 65 % · 67 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 60 % · 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
- 20,892
- hectares burned
- 25 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 843
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Chios
- 7,793 ha Chios fire, August 2025 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 7,914 ha in total · 5 days
- 6,356 ha Chios fire, June 2025 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 6,349 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,033 ha Chios fire, July 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 2 days
- 467 ha Chios fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 466 ha in total · 1 day
- 5,243 ha Chios fire, July 2016 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 5,242 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).