Wildfires in PaphosΠάφος
Paphos, Cyprus: 13 fires with a page have entered 34 of its 125 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,164 hectares inside the region. The largest was Polemi in June 2024, with 1,621 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 5,164ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.7%
- 1,404 km²
- fires
- 13
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 34
- of 125
- Largest fire
- 1,621ha
- Polemi · June 2024
- Inhabitants
- 39,737
- 130.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 24° · 50 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 22° · 62 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 67 % · 42 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 20° · 61 % · 35 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 20° · 64 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 20° · 41 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 19° · 37 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 19° · 59 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Choulou 147 inhabitants 690 ha · 58 %
- Argaka 1,078 inhabitants 674 ha · 42 %
- Pano Archimandrita 43 inhabitants 371 ha · 20 %
- Giolou 762 inhabitants 370 ha · 39 %
- Polemi 848 inhabitants 336 ha · 27 %
- Pentalia 63 inhabitants 288 ha · 20 %
- Psathi 110 inhabitants 224 ha · 99 %
- Galataria 56 inhabitants 217 ha · 27 %
- Drymou 110 inhabitants 200 ha · 29 %
- Drouseia 193 ha · 5.2 %
- Lemona 51 inhabitants 160 ha · 21 %
- Marathounta 309 inhabitants 153 ha · 12 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas52 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland14 %
- Other natural land7.1 %
- Coniferous forest3.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 1,621 haPolemi ΠολέμιJune 2024 · 2 days
- 801 haArgaka ΑργάκαJune 2016 · 1 day
- 531 haDrymou ΔρύμουSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 379 haPentalia ΠενταλιάJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 371 haPano Archimandrita Πάνω ΑρχιμανδρίταAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 336 haMarathounta ΜαραθούνταJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 279 haPentalia ΠενταλιάJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 169 haGiolou ΓιόλουJuly 2024 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 868 | Pentalia 379 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 1,931 | Polemi 1,621 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 810 | Drymou 531 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 371 | Pano Archimandrita 371 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 234 | Agios Ioannis Pafou 124 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 149 | Agios Georgios 149 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 801 | Argaka 801 ha |
All fires in Paphos · 13
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 153 haSteni ΣτενήAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 336 haMarathounta ΜαραθούνταJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 379 haPentalia ΠενταλιάJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 141 haDrouseiaOctober 2024 · 1 day
- 169 haGiolou ΓιόλουJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 1,621 haPolemi ΠολέμιJune 2024 · 2 days
- 531 haDrymou ΔρύμουSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 279 haPentalia ΠενταλιάJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 371 haPano Archimandrita Πάνω ΑρχιμανδρίταAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 110 haDrouseiaNovember 2019 · 1 day
- 124 haAgios Ioannis Pafou Άγιος ΙωάννηςJune 2019 · 1 day
- 149 haAgios GeorgiosJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 801 haArgaka ΑργάκαJune 2016 · 1 day
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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