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Wildfires in LarnacaΕπαρχία Λάρνακας

Larnaca, Cyprus: 6 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 57 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,930 hectares inside the region. The largest was Melini in July 2021, with 3,094 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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
3,930ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.9%
1,001 km²
fires
6
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 57
Largest fire
3,094ha
Melini · July 2021
Inhabitants
61,705
63.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 29° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 24° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 24° · 39 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 54 % · 39 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Ora 206 inhabitants 1,102 ha · 70 %
  2. Melini 59 inhabitants 780 ha · 98 %
  3. Odou 213 inhabitants 632 ha · 56 %
  4. Agloi Vavatsinias 131 inhabitants 523 ha · 33 %
  5. Agia Anna 339 inhabitants 297 ha · 23 %
  6. Vavatsinia 81 inhabitants 150 ha · 10 %
  7. Sia 754 inhabitants 128 ha · 2.7 %
  8. Kalo Chorio Larnakas 1,518 inhabitants 117 ha · 4.3 %
  9. Tochni 424 inhabitants 81 ha · 4.7 %
  10. Vavla 39 inhabitants 61 ha · 6.4 %
  11. Lageia 28 inhabitants 25 ha · 2.2 %
  12. Choirokoitia 632 inhabitants 22 ha · 1.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas36 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub33 %
  • Coniferous forest30 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261291 Agia Anna 291 ha
20232296 Tochni 173 ha
202113,094 Melini 3,094 ha
20201131 Sia 131 ha
20171118 Ora 118 ha

All fires in Larnaca · 6

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).