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Wildfires in Crete
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 1,170 km² of Crete at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 100 km², ranking 9th 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 2012, with 208 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 40 km². The 2021–2025 average is 42% lower 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.
July, August and September together hold 39% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 July 2012, with detections in 37 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,170 km² with at least one detection, 3.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 994 | 85% |
| 2 years | 131 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 37 | 3.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.0 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.25, 24.75 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 208 | 220 |
| 2013 | 141 | 147 |
| 2014 | 97 | 100 |
| 2015 | 100 | 107 |
| 2016 | 160 | 178 |
| 2017 | 87 | 92 |
| 2018 | 92 | 100 |
| 2019 | 40 | 40 |
| 2020 | 68 | 70 |
| 2021 | 88 | 91 |
| 2022 | 75 | 88 |
| 2023 | 67 | 68 |
| 2024 | 108 | 123 |
| 2025 | 70 | 87 |
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
- Central Greece249 km² in an average year
- West Macedonia208 km² in an average year
- West Greece153 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
- South Aegean292 km
- Peloponnese308 km
- Al Qubbah, Libya333 km
- Attica345 km
- Muğla, Turkey349 km
- Central Greece411 km