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Attica, Greece: 34 fires with a page have entered 24 of its 64 municipalities since 2016, burning 88,840 hectares inside the region. The largest was Varnavas in August 2024, with 10,988 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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: 88,840ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 23%; 3,837 km²
fires: 34; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 24; of 64
Largest fire: 10,988ha; Varnavas · August 2024
Inhabitants: 279,902; 317.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

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

Sun 25 Very low 22° · 60 % · 40 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 20° · 71 % · 38 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 20° · 70 % · 50 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 18° · 66 % · 48 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 20° · 61 % · 51 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 20° · 60 % · 36 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 19° · 65 % · 34 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 18° · 73 % · 45 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

Mandra-Eidyllia 11,075 inhabitants 23,562 ha · 56 %
Megara 25,174 inhabitants 15,713 ha · 49 %
Oropos 8,447 inhabitants 8,274 ha · 24 %
Marathon 7,918 inhabitants 6,362 ha · 29 %
Kythira 3,737 inhabitants 6,219 ha · 19 %
Acharnes 76,826 inhabitants 4,790 ha · 32 %
Lavreotiki 4,663 ha · 27 %
Fyli 3,640 inhabitants 4,330 ha · 40 %
Saronikos 4,308 inhabitants 3,974 ha · 34 %
Dionysos 3,225 ha · 50 %
Penteli 2,580 ha · 74 %
Aspropyrgos 1,676 ha · 17 %

What burns in the region

Sclerophyllous scrub24 %
Scrub and transitional woodland21 %
Coniferous forest17 %
Agricultural areas16 %
Other natural land13 %
Artificial surfaces4.6 %
Mixed forest4.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

8×Megara15,713 ha
6×Mandra-Eidyllia23,562 ha
6×Lavreotiki4,663 ha
5×Oropos8,274 ha
5×Saronikos3,974 ha
5×Dionysos3,225 ha
4×Rafina-Pikermi1,391 ha
3×Marathon6,362 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
2026	2	10,321	Mandra-Eidyllia 10,197 ha
2025	7	6,167	Kythira 3,245 ha
2024	3	11,582	Varnavas 10,988 ha
2023	3	19,049	Dervenochoria 9,044 ha
2022	4	3,581	Rafina-Pikermi 2,841 ha
2021	6	24,397	Vilia 10,190 ha
2020	1	1,040	Lavreotiki 1,040 ha
2019	1	180	Paiania 180 ha
2018	2	5,823	Kineta 4,460 ha
2017	4	6,313	Kythira 2,974 ha
2016	1	387	Megara 387 ha

All fires in Attica · 34

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/EuroGeoGraphics, Regional IM Working Group - Europe (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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