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Wildfires in PeloponneseΠελοπόννησος

Peloponnese, Greece: 42 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 26 municipalities since 2016, burning 50,499 hectares inside the region. The largest was East Mani in August 2021, with 11,248 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
50,499ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.2%
15,542 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
21
of 26
Largest fire
11,248ha
East Mani · August 2021
Inhabitants
204,043
247.5 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 20° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 88 % · 38 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 67 % · 56 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 63 % · 22 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. East Mani 15,549 ha · 24 %
  2. Xylokastro-Evrostina 8,533 ha · 17 %
  3. Loutraki-Agioi Theodoroi 4,652 ha · 15 %
  4. Corinth 35,650 inhabitants 4,380 ha · 7.3 %
  5. Gortynia 4,060 ha · 4.0 %
  6. Megalopolis 3,415 ha · 5.5 %
  7. Sikyona 1,823 ha · 3.0 %
  8. Oichalia 3,340 inhabitants 1,739 ha · 5.5 %
  9. Velo-Vocha 7,926 inhabitants 1,087 ha · 6.4 %
  10. Pylos-Nestoras 1,026 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Monemvasia 776 ha · 0.8 %
  12. Trifylia 747 ha · 1.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas39 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub17 %
  • Coniferous forest14 %
  • Mixed forest5.6 %
  • Other natural land3.5 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.2 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

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
20261562 Argos-Mykines 562 ha
202543,004 Sikyona 1,703 ha
202489,307 Xylokastro 7,792 ha
202321,614 Loutraki-Agioi Theodoroi 1,274 ha
20222402 Pylos-Nestoras 252 ha
20211224,036 East Mani 11,248 ha
202035,575 Corinth 3,555 ha
20191353 Loutraki-Agioi Theodoroi 353 ha
201831,857 Kineta 996 ha
201753,668 East Mani 2,262 ha
20161122 Monemvasia 122 ha

All fires in Peloponnese · 42

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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