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Western Greece, Greece: 36 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 18 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,266 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pyrgos in 4 August 2021, with 14,543 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: 34,266ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 3.0%; 11,325 km²
fires: 36; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 15; of 18
Largest fire: 14,543ha; Pyrgos · 4 August 2021
Inhabitants: 124,715; 274.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sun 1 Very low 19° · 73 % · 23 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 20° · 68 % · 33 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 20° · 63 % · 40 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 20° · 59 % · 19 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 20° · 61 % · 46 km/h
Fri 6 Very low 18° · 62 % · 44 km/h
Sat 7 Very low 18° · 55 % · 41 km/h
Sun 8 Very low 18° · 45 % · 39 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

Olympia 9,917 ha · 15 %
Pyrgos 36,179 inhabitants 7,177 ha · 15 %
West Achaea 6,100 ha · 9.0 %
Patras 3,648 ha · 8.7 %
Aigialeia 2,920 ha · 3.4 %
Erymanthos 2,270 ha · 3.4 %
Ilida 595 ha · 1.2 %
Aktio-Vonitsa 528 ha · 0.8 %
Missolonghi 388 ha · 0.6 %
Andravida-Kyllini 4,489 inhabitants 362 ha · 0.9 %
Andritsaina-Krestena 138 ha · 0.3 %
Nafpaktia 116 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

Agricultural areas56 %
Scrub and transitional woodland18 %
Sclerophyllous scrub10 %
Mixed forest6.7 %
Other natural land4.4 %
Coniferous forest3.6 %
Broadleaved forest0.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

9×West Achaea6,100 ha
6×Ilida595 ha
4×Olympia9,917 ha
4×Pyrgos7,177 ha
4×Patras3,648 ha
4×Andravida-Kyllini362 ha
3×Aigialeia2,920 ha
3×Erymanthos2,270 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	1	871	Aigialeia 871 ha
2025	8	5,779	Patras 2,849 ha
2024	4	4,932	Erymanthos 4,338 ha
2023	3	1,878	Aigialeia 1,660 ha
2022	6	2,104	West Achaea 818 ha
2021	6	15,899	Pyrgos 14,543 ha
2020	3	768	Pyrgos 331 ha
2018	2	250	West Achaea 134 ha
2017	2	1,623	West Achaea 1,485 ha
2016	1	161	West Achaea 161 ha

All fires in Western Greece · 36

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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