Wildfires in North AegeanΒόρειο Αιγαίο
North Aegean, Greece: 11 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 municipalities since 2016, burning 22,931 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chios in August 2025, with 7,793 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
- 22,931ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.0%
- 3,836 km²
- fires
- 11
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 7,793ha
- Chios · August 2025
- Inhabitants
- 24,964
- 918.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 20° · 73 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 21° · 68 % · 43 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 73 % · 46 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 17° · 65 % · 47 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 15° · 58 % · 51 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 16° · 54 % · 61 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 17° · 52 % · 59 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 17° · 66 % · 26 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Chios 24,964 inhabitants 20,892 ha · 25 %
- Samos 1,602 ha · 3.3 %
- Psara 230 ha · 5.0 %
- Lemnos 208 ha · 0.4 %
Largest recorded fires
- 7,793 haChios ΧίοςAugust 2025 · 5 days
- 6,356 haChios ΧίοςJune 2025 · 4 days
- 5,243 haChios ΧίοςJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 1,033 haChios ΧίοςJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 784 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 467 haChios ΧίοςAugust 2016 · 2 days
- 442 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 357 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2021 · 2 days of 510 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in North Aegean · 11
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 7,793 haChios ΧίοςAugust 2025 · 5 days
- 6,356 haChios ΧίοςJune 2025 · 4 days
- 1,033 haChios ΧίοςJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 442 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 357 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2021 · 2 days of 510 ha in total
- 230 haPsara Ηρωικής Νήσου ΨαρώνJune 2020 · 1 day
- 18 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουSeptember 2018 · 2 days of 147 ha in total
- 208 haLemnos ΛήμνοςDecember 2016 · 2 days
- 467 haChios ΧίοςAugust 2016 · 2 days
- 5,243 haChios ΧίοςJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 784 haSamos Δυτικής ΣάμουJuly 2016 · 2 days
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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