Wildfires in Nicosia MunicipalityΔήμος Λευκωσίας
Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus: 8 fires with a page have entered 24 of its 173 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,417 hectares inside the region. The largest was Agios Theodoros Soleas in June 2016, with 1,943 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 3,417ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 2,721 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 24
- of 173
- Largest fire
- 1,943ha
- Agios Theodoros Soleas · June 2016
- Inhabitants
- 109,406
- 31.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Very low 19° · 56 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 22° · 49 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 21° · 62 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 55 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 20° · 46 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 17° · 75 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 16° · 49 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 14° · 38 % · 29 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Agios Theodoros Soleas 49 inhabitants 934 ha · 44 %
- Spilia 142 inhabitants 318 ha · 23 %
- Kalo Chorio Kapouti 273 ha · 9.6 %
- Nikitari 447 inhabitants 222 ha · 6.7 %
- Farmakas 480 inhabitants 216 ha · 14 %
- Kythrea 214 ha · 6.5 %
- Peristerona Lefkosias 2,226 inhabitants 186 ha · 7.7 %
- Platanistasa 117 inhabitants 161 ha · 7.7 %
- Evrychou 827 inhabitants 137 ha · 10 %
- Agia Marina Xyliatou 568 inhabitants 135 ha · 6.6 %
- Kakopetria 1,274 inhabitants 134 ha · 4.1 %
- Lefkosia 128 ha · 2.5 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas29 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub23 %
- Coniferous forest23 %
- Other natural land20 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland5.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Farmakas216 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,943 haAgios Theodoros Soleas Άγιος Θεόδωρος ΣολέαςJune 2016 · 4 days
- 305 haEpicho Επιχό/ΤζιχανγκίρSeptember 2020 · 1 day
- 298 haPlatanistasa ΠλατανιστάσαJune 2021 · 1 day
- 273 haDiorios ΔιόριοςMay 2020 · 2 days of 1,072 ha in total
- 256 haFarmakas ΦαρμακάςJune 2024 · 1 day
- 206 haPeristerona Lefkosias ΠεριστερώναJuly 2020 · 1 day
- 135 haLefkosia LefkoşaJune 2020 · 1 day
- 2 haMelini ΜελίνηJuly 2021 · 2 days of 4,627 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 256 | Farmakas 256 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 300 | Platanistasa 298 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 919 | Epicho 305 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,943 | Agios Theodoros Soleas 1,943 ha |
All fires in Nicosia Municipality · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 256 haFarmakas ΦαρμακάςJune 2024 · 1 day
- 2 haMelini ΜελίνηJuly 2021 · 2 days of 4,627 ha in total
- 298 haPlatanistasa ΠλατανιστάσαJune 2021 · 1 day
- 305 haEpicho Επιχό/ΤζιχανγκίρSeptember 2020 · 1 day
- 206 haPeristerona Lefkosias ΠεριστερώναJuly 2020 · 1 day
- 135 haLefkosia LefkoşaJune 2020 · 1 day
- 273 haDiorios ΔιόριοςMay 2020 · 2 days of 1,072 ha in total
- 1,943 haAgios Theodoros Soleas Άγιος Θεόδωρος ΣολέαςJune 2016 · 4 days
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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