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Limassol, Cyprus: 16 fires with a page have entered 53 of its 105 municipalities since 2016, burning 17,531 hectares inside the region. The largest was Agios Therapon in July 2025, with 12,467 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned: 17,531ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 14%; 1,254 km²
fires: 16; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 53; of 105
Largest fire: 12,467ha; Agios Therapon · July 2025
Inhabitants: 46,449; 377.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sat 14 Low 22° · 56 % · 23 km/h
Sun 15 Low 22° · 62 % · 26 km/h
Mon 16 Moderate 22° · 51 % · 42 km/h
Tue 17 Moderate 21° · 59 % · 41 km/h
Wed 18 Moderate 22° · 56 % · 39 km/h
Thu 19 Moderate 22° · 57 % · 65 km/h
Fri 20 Moderate 22° · 57 % · 45 km/h
Sat 21 Moderate 23° · 54 % · 38 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Agios Therapon 125 inhabitants 1,745 ha · 1.1×
Vouni 149 inhabitants 1,617 ha · 1.1×
Souni Zanakia 837 inhabitants 1,515 ha · 72 %
Lofou 46 inhabitants 1,272 ha · 100 %
Eptagoneia 353 inhabitants 938 ha · 76 %
Vasa Koilaniou 163 inhabitants 832 ha · 98 %
Pano Kivides 707 inhabitants 656 ha · 38 %
Koilani 216 inhabitants 573 ha · 49 %
Kato Kivides 5 inhabitants 562 ha · 100 %
Agios Georgios Lemesou 498 ha · 82 %
Agios Amvrosios Lemesou 461 ha · 32 %
Ypsonas 452 ha · 14 %

What burns in the region

Sclerophyllous scrub41 %
Agricultural areas39 %
Coniferous forest12 %
Scrub and transitional woodland3.1 %
Other natural land2.0 %
Artificial surfaces1.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

4×Ypsonas452 ha
3×Vouni1,617 ha
3×Pachna434 ha
2×Agios Therapon1,745 ha
2×Lofou1,272 ha
2×Agios Amvrosios Lemesou461 ha
2×Kissousa396 ha
2×Dierona310 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2025	2	12,572	Agios Therapon 12,467 ha
2024	3	843	Kato Polemidia 445 ha
2023	4	1,499	Apsiou 805 ha
2022	1	199	Pachna 199 ha
2021	2	1,656	Melini 1,542 ha
2020	1	273	Prastio Avdimou 273 ha
2019	1	268	Kissousa 268 ha
2018	2	219	Erimi 116 ha

All fires in Limassol · 16

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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