Wildfires in KyreniaΕπαρχία Κερύνειας
Kyrenia, Cyprus: 3 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 46 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,506 hectares inside the region. The largest was Diorios in May 2020, with 801 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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
- 1,506ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.2%
- 683 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 46
- Largest fire
- 801ha
- Diorios · May 2020
- Inhabitants
- 23,019
- 65.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Low 26° · 44 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 26° · 47 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 26° · 45 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 58 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 65 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 78 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 22° · 50 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 22° · 44 % · 17 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Asomatos Keryneias 527 inhabitants 561 ha · 25 %
- Diorios 501 inhabitants 390 ha · 10 %
- Kormakitis 1,257 inhabitants 350 ha · 7.0 %
- Karpaseia 245 inhabitants 204 ha · 30 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub33 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland32 %
- Other natural land19 %
- Agricultural areas16 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Asomatos Keryneias561 ha
- 2×Karpaseia204 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 801 haDiorios ΔιόριοςMay 2020 · 2 days of 1,072 ha in total
- 354 haAsomatos Keryneias Ασώματος/ΟζχάνJuly 2017 · 1 day
- 350 haKormakitis ΚορμακίτηςMay 2020 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 1,151 | Diorios 801 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 354 | Asomatos Keryneias 354 ha |
All fires in Kyrenia · 3
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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