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Wildfires in Central Greece
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 2,560 km² of Central Greece at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 249 km², ranking 4th of 14 regions of Greece.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2021, with 711 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 74 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.0% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 August 2021, with detections in 455 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,560 km² with at least one detection, 7.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,020 | 79% |
| 2 years | 362 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 157 | 6.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 16 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 6.8 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 38.75, 23.25 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 311 | 807 |
| 2013 | 327 | 815 |
| 2014 | 253 | 754 |
| 2015 | 190 | 657 |
| 2016 | 295 | 758 |
| 2017 | 159 | 644 |
| 2018 | 74 | 444 |
| 2019 | 223 | 647 |
| 2020 | 171 | 447 |
| 2021 | 711 | 1,372 |
| 2022 | 143 | 318 |
| 2023 | 357 | 622 |
| 2024 | 151 | 314 |
| 2025 | 123 | 252 |
Other regions of Greece
- Thessalia560 km² in an average year
- Centre Macedonia509 km² in an average year
- East Macedonia and Thrace308 km² in an average year
- West Macedonia208 km² in an average year
- West Greece153 km² in an average year
- Peloponnese150 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Thessalia70 km
- Attica70 km
- Peloponnese111 km
- West Greece207 km
- North Aegean223 km
- Epirus223 km