Wildfires in EpirusΉπειρος
Epirus, Greece: 20 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 18 municipalities since 2016, burning 9,978 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ziros in August 2025, with 5,831 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
- 9,978ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 9,150 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 5,831ha
- Ziros · August 2025
- Inhabitants
- 158,726
- 62.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 20° · 49 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 19° · 56 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 15° · 67 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 18° · 67 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 17° · 36 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 34 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 15° · 54 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 63 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ziros 3,977 ha · 11 %
- Arta 26,517 inhabitants 2,079 ha · 5.3 %
- Konitsa 6,371 inhabitants 983 ha · 1.1 %
- Ioannina 59,037 inhabitants 636 ha · 1.6 %
- Filiates 8,270 inhabitants 599 ha · 1.0 %
- Preveza 20,922 inhabitants 512 ha · 1.4 %
- Pogoni 401 ha · 0.6 %
- Zitsa 3,409 inhabitants 371 ha · 0.7 %
- Souli 1,194 inhabitants 273 ha · 0.6 %
- Parga 4,453 inhabitants 110 ha · 0.4 %
- Dodoni 3,006 inhabitants 37 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land36 %
- Agricultural areas23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland16 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub13 %
- Coniferous forest4.2 %
- Artificial surfaces3.7 %
- Broadleaved forest3.5 %
- Mixed forest0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 5,831 haZiros ΖηρούAugust 2025 · 3 days
- 636 haIoannina ΙωάννιναAugust 2017 · 1 day
- 546 haPreveza ΠρέβεζαAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 541 haKonitsa ΚόνιτσαAugust 2026 · 15 days
- 336 haKonitsa ΚόνιτσαAugust 2021 · 3 days
- 275 haPogoni ΠωγώνιAugust 2019 · 2 days
- 214 haZitsa ΖίτσαJuly 2016 · 1 day
- 206 haFiliates Φιλιάτες5 August 2017 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Epirus · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 541 haKonitsa ΚόνιτσαAugust 2026 · 15 days
- 122 haSouli ΣουλίουAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 107 haKonitsa ΚόνιτσαAugust 2025 · 6 days of 220 ha in total
- 5,831 haZiros ΖηρούAugust 2025 · 3 days
- 157 haZitsa ΖίτσαAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 125 haPreveza ΠρέβεζαAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 152 haSouli ΣουλίουJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 126 haPogoni ΠωγώνιAugust 2024 · 2 days of 170 ha in total
- 11 haFiliates ΦιλιάτεςAugust 2024 · 3 days of 107 ha in total
- 336 haKonitsa ΚόνιτσαAugust 2021 · 3 days
- 110 haParga ΠάργαSeptember 2020 · 2 days
- 146 haFiliates ΦιλιάτεςSeptember 2020 · 4 days
- 121 haFiliates ΦιλιάτεςJuly 2020 · 4 days of 145 ha in total
- 275 haPogoni ΠωγώνιAugust 2019 · 2 days
- 546 haPreveza ΠρέβεζαAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 102 haZiros ΖηρούAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 636 haIoannina ΙωάννιναAugust 2017 · 1 day
- 115 haFiliates Φιλιάτες11 August 2017 · 1 day
- 206 haFiliates Φιλιάτες5 August 2017 · 4 days
- 214 haZitsa ΖίτσαJuly 2016 · 1 day
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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