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Wildfires in ThessalyΘεσσαλία

Thessaly, Greece: 18 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 24 municipalities since 2016, burning 15,337 hectares inside the region. The largest was Volos in July 2023, with 8,641 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.

These figures leave out 5 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
15,337ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.1%
14,046 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 24
Largest fire
8,641ha
Volos · July 2023
Inhabitants
399,936
38.3 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 22° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 82 % · 14 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 93 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 77 % · 19 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Volos 71,516 inhabitants 4,685 ha · 11 %
  2. Rigas Feraios 3,970 ha · 6.7 %
  3. Kileler 3,963 inhabitants 2,405 ha · 2.3 %
  4. Farsala 10,582 inhabitants 2,028 ha · 2.5 %
  5. Tempi 1,197 ha · 2.0 %
  6. Tyrnavos 15,538 inhabitants 943 ha · 1.8 %
  7. Almyros 12,870 inhabitants 403 ha · 0.4 %
  8. Agia 375 ha · 0.6 %
  9. Farkadona 6,916 inhabitants 298 ha · 0.9 %
  10. Larissa 123,890 inhabitants 168 ha · 0.5 %
  11. Palamas 9,510 inhabitants 38 ha · 0.1 %
  12. Elassona 12,903 inhabitants 32 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas43 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub42 %
  • Other natural land13 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.4 %

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
202661,391 Farsala 406 ha
202542,086 Tyrnavos 975 ha
202359,839 Volos 8,641 ha
20221233 Farsala 233 ha
202111,137 Kileler 1,137 ha
20192268 Farkadona 148 ha
20182351 Kileler 192 ha
201621,237 Tempi 916 ha

All fires in Thessaly · 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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