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Wildfires in Megara Δημοτική Ενότητα ΜΕΓΑΡΕΩΝ

Megara, Greece, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 15,713 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Fri 23 Very low 24° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 78 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 90 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 63 % · 55 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 71 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 45 % · 59 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 56 % · 36 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

15,713
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
8
fires
320
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Megara

  1. 3,456 ha Mandra-Eidyllia fire, 31 July 2026 11% of the municipality · 13,192 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 103 ha Megara fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 710 ha Dervenochoria fire, July 2023 2.2% of the municipality · 11,662 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 185 ha Megara fire, July 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 244 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,422 ha Vilia fire, August 2021 4.4% of the municipality · 10,175 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4,989 ha Gerania fire, May 2021 16% of the municipality · 7,005 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4,460 ha Kineta fire, July 2018 where it started 14% of the municipality · 5,568 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 387 ha Megara fire, June 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 387 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).