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Crete, Greece: 25 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 23 municipalities since 2016, burning 17,026 hectares inside the region. The largest was Agios Vasileios in 29 July 2026, with 5,086 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
17,026ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.0%
8,343 km²
fires
25
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 23
Largest fire
5,086ha
Agios Vasileios · 29 July 2026
Inhabitants
157,844
107.9 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 Very low 20° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 82 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 83 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 82 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 80 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 62 % · 58 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 56 % · 46 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. Agios Vasileios 10,454 ha · 29 %
  2. Ierapetra 21,687 inhabitants 1,523 ha · 3.0 %
  3. Sitia 15,313 inhabitants 1,375 ha · 2.1 %
  4. Kantanos-Selino 1,219 ha · 3.3 %
  5. Amari 982 ha · 3.8 %
  6. Rethymno 29,480 inhabitants 543 ha · 1.4 %
  7. Gortyn 5,621 inhabitants 318 ha · 0.7 %
  8. Kissamos 8,287 inhabitants 238 ha · 0.7 %
  9. Platanias 5,979 inhabitants 185 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Minoa Pediada 173 ha · 0.4 %
  11. Archanes-Asterousia 16 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas41 %
  • Other natural land37 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub19 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.2 %
  • Coniferous forest0.6 %

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
202657,496 Agios Vasileios 5,086 ha
202521,358 Kantanos-Selino 742 ha
202441,666 Amari 982 ha
202212,325 Agios Vasileios 2,325 ha
20201375 Kantanos-Selino 375 ha
20184921 Sitia 504 ha
20172277 Ierapetra 139 ha
201662,609 Agios Vasileios 1,437 ha

All fires in Crete · 25

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).