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Wildfires in Kythira Κύθηρα

Kythira, Greece, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,219 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% 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
  1. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 65 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 66 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 70 % · 61 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 67 % · 67 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 63 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 66 % · 31 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

6,219
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
2
fires
323
km²

How many times has Kythira burned?

Kythira has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Kythira fire, July 2025, with 3,245 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,219 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,202 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,219
cumulative ha
4,202
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 Kythira

  1. 3,245 ha Kythira fire, July 2025 where it started 10% of the municipality · 3,234 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,974 ha Kythira fire, August 2017 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 2,963 ha in total · 5 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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