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Wildfires in Rhodes Ρόδος

Rhodes, Greece, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 21,598 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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 24° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 65 % · 66 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 59 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 91 % · 25 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

21,598
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
3
fires
1,415
km²

How many times has Rhodes burned?

Rhodes has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Rhodes fire, July 2023, with 18,660 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
21,598
cumulative ha
18 Jul 2023
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 Rhodes

  1. 18,660 ha Rhodes fire, July 2023 where it started 13% of the municipality · 18,626 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,164 ha Rhodes fire, August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,774 ha Rhodes fire, June 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,772 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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