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Wildfires in Karystos Κάρυστος

Karystos, Greece, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 5,768 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% 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. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 80 % · 69 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 81 % · 59 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 80 % · 75 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 76 % · 49 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 80 % · 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

5,768
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
9
fires
677
km²

How many times has Karystos burned?

Karystos has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Karystos fire, September 2026, with 717 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,768 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,097 hectares, 7.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
5,768
cumulative ha
5,097
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 Karystos

  1. 717 ha Karystos fire, September 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 761 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 499 ha Karystos fire, November 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 504 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,063 ha Karystos fire, July 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 143 ha Karystos fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 440 ha Karystos fire, July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 440 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 143 ha Karystos fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 143 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 202 ha Karystos fire, 13 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 202 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 119 ha Karystos fire, 8 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,441 ha Karystos fire, July 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 1 day

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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