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EL · Greece · Western Macedonia · 1,878 inhabitants

Wildfires in Prespes Πρεσπών

Prespes, Greece, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 300 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 14° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 11° · 81 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 78 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 6° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 11° · 55 % · 27 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

300
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
538
km²

How many times has Prespes burned?

Prespes has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Prespes fire, February 2019, with 163 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
300
cumulative ha
14 Feb 2019
most recent

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 Prespes

  1. 163 ha Prespes fire, February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 163 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 137 ha Prespes fire, September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 173 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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