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Wildfires in Dirfys-Messapia Διρφύων - Μεσσαπίων

Dirfys-Messapia, Greece, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% 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. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 88 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 63 % · 49 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 81 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 78 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 87 % · 45 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

4,929
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
7
fires
768
km²

How many times has Dirfys-Messapia burned?

Dirfys-Messapia has burned 7 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dirfys-Messapia fire, September 2026, with 103 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,929 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,622 hectares, 6.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
7
years with fire
4,929
cumulative ha
4,622
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 Dirfys-Messapia

  1. 103 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 546 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 156 ha Chalcis fire, July 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 918 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 556 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, August 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 560 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,895 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, August 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,889 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 566 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 565 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 107 ha Dirfys-Messapia fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 109 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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