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Wildfires in Velo-Vocha Βέλου - Βόχας

Velo-Vocha, Greece, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,087 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% 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. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 65 % · 44 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 16° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 55 % · 23 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

1,087
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
3
fires
171
km²

How many times has Velo-Vocha burned?

Velo-Vocha has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Velo-Vocha fire, July 2024, with 650 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,087
cumulative ha
11 Jul 2024
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 Velo-Vocha

  1. 650 ha Velo-Vocha fire, July 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 649 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 136 ha Velo-Vocha fire, July 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 251 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 302 ha Velo-Vocha fire, September 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 524 ha in total · 2 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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