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Wildfires in Gortynia Γορτυνίας

Gortynia, Greece, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 4,060 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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 25 Very low 18° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 78 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 84 % · 30 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

4,060
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
2
fires
1,021
km²

How many times has Gortynia burned?

Gortynia has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Gortynia fire, July 2024, with 164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,060 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,896 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,060
cumulative ha
3,896
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 Gortynia

  1. 164 ha Gortynia fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 164 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,896 ha Pyrgos fire, 4 August 2021 3.8% of the municipality · 18,400 ha in total · 9 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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