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Wildfires in South Aegean
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 1,070 km² of South Aegean at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 94 km², ranking 10th 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 2023, with 296 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 29 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% 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 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 July 2023, with detections in 107 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,070 km² with at least one detection, 3.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 893 | 84% |
| 2 years | 139 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 31 | 2.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.0 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.25, 27.75 and holds 27% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 110 | 142 |
| 2013 | 150 | 213 |
| 2014 | 79 | 86 |
| 2015 | 90 | 97 |
| 2016 | 156 | 192 |
| 2017 | 65 | 77 |
| 2018 | 48 | 53 |
| 2019 | 37 | 50 |
| 2020 | 61 | 73 |
| 2021 | 96 | 113 |
| 2022 | 29 | 32 |
| 2023 | 296 | 408 |
| 2024 | 66 | 84 |
| 2025 | 29 | 33 |
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
- Muğla, Turkey111 km
- Aydın, Turkey172 km
- Denizli, Turkey213 km
- Burdur, Turkey248 km
- Antalya, Turkey273 km
- Isparta, Turkey277 km