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Wildfires in Central GreeceΣτερεά Ελλάδα

Central Greece, Greece: 56 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 25 municipalities since 2016, burning 99,937 hectares inside the region. The largest was Evia in August 2021, with 51,365 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
99,937ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.4%
15,578 km²
fires
56
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
21
of 25
Largest fire
51,365ha
Evia · August 2021
Inhabitants
116,937
854.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 84 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 63 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 66 % · 25 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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

  1. Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna 33,200 ha · 56 %
  2. Istiaia-Aidipsos 20,611 ha · 41 %
  3. Thebes 11,122 ha · 13 %
  4. Karystos 7,483 inhabitants 5,768 ha · 8.5 %
  5. Livadeia 5,665 ha · 7.8 %
  6. Dirfys-Messapia 6,265 inhabitants 4,930 ha · 6.4 %
  7. Tanagra 4,183 ha · 9.5 %
  8. Dorida 3,422 ha · 3.6 %
  9. Kymi-Aliveri 2,454 ha · 3.0 %
  10. Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra 3,353 inhabitants 2,448 ha · 7.5 %
  11. Chalcis 1,630 ha · 4.0 %
  12. Delphi 1,242 ha · 1.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Sclerophyllous scrub25 %
  • Agricultural areas24 %
  • Coniferous forest19 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland15 %
  • Mixed forest9.3 %
  • Other natural land4.9 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.1 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.1 %

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
20261210,243 Thebes 3,653 ha
202511,407 Dirfys-Messapia 1,407 ha
202452,065 Chalcis 920 ha
20231217,069 Livadeia 5,126 ha
202231,486 Delphi 1,242 ha
2021655,245 Evia 51,365 ha
20201338 Lokroi 338 ha
201975,247 Dirfys-Messapia 2,895 ha
20181566 Dirfys-Messapia 566 ha
20171109 Dirfys-Messapia 109 ha
201676,162 Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna 2,446 ha

All fires in Central Greece · 56

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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