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Wildfires in Central MacedoniaΚεντρική Μακεδονία

Central Macedonia, Greece: 23 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 39 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,932 hectares inside the region. The largest was Serres in August 2024, with 1,397 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: 8,932ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 0.5%; 18,874 km²
fires: 23; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 17; of 39
Largest fire: 1,397ha; Serres · August 2024
Inhabitants: 673,688; 13.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

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

Thu 29 Very low 19° · 54 % · 37 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 15° · 79 % · 16 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 15° · 84 % · 12 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 14° · 88 % · 38 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 18° · 66 % · 46 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 18° · 73 % · 53 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 16° · 54 % · 54 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 14° · 77 % · 26 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

Serres 54,461 inhabitants 1,397 ha · 3.1 %
Lagkadas 21,590 inhabitants 1,368 ha · 1.1 %
Veria 43,687 inhabitants 976 ha · 1.1 %
Sintiki 813 ha · 0.7 %
Amphipolis 667 ha · 1.5 %
Sithonia 9,340 inhabitants 610 ha · 1.2 %
Almopia 608 ha · 0.6 %
Nea Zichni 9,665 inhabitants 502 ha · 1.2 %
Polygyros 11,478 inhabitants 430 ha · 0.5 %
Kilkis 27,581 inhabitants 370 ha · 0.2 %
Kassandra 9,829 inhabitants 307 ha · 0.9 %
Skydra 15,444 inhabitants 293 ha · 1.1 %

What burns in the region

Other natural land44 %
Agricultural areas17 %
Sclerophyllous scrub13 %
Scrub and transitional woodland7.6 %
Broadleaved forest7.0 %
Mixed forest5.8 %
Coniferous forest5.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

4×Lagkadas1,368 ha
3×Almopia608 ha
3×Kilkis370 ha
2×Sintiki813 ha
2×Amphipolis667 ha
2×Polygyros430 ha
2×Volvi230 ha
2×Pella132 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	426	Kassandra 307 ha
2025	2	1,132	Lagkadas 959 ha
2024	8	3,639	Serres 1,397 ha
2023	2	354	Polygyros 245 ha
2022	1	293	Skydra 293 ha
2021	4	1,790	Veria 976 ha
2019	1	404	Almopia 404 ha
2018	2	792	Sithonia 610 ha
2017	1	103	Almopia 103 ha

All fires in Central Macedonia · 23

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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