Fire atlas
Fires in Greece
Satellite-detected fires in Greece right now, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 42,652 detections, 8,668 distinct fires, season and worst years by region.
Fires burning now in Greece
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Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS
See it on the mapFive years of archive
2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31
The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.
- Satellite detections
- 42,652
- Distinct fires
- 8,668
- Busiest month
- August
- Worst year
- 2023
- Strongest signal
- 5,155 MW
- Seen at night
- 42.2%
- Detections per 1,000 km²
- 323.8
Detections per year
| Year | Detections |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 4,352 |
| 2021 | 11,165 |
| 2022 | 4,391 |
| 2023 | 12,188 |
| 2024 | 4,753 |
| 2025 | 4,394 |
| 2026 | 1,409 |
The season
Share of detections by month, over the five years together.
| Month | Detections |
|---|---|
| Jan | 1,094 |
| Feb | 2,334 |
| Mar | 2,356 |
| Apr | 866 |
| May | 728 |
| Jun | 1,360 |
| Jul | 6,887 |
| Aug | 18,710 |
| Sep | 1,709 |
| Oct | 2,826 |
| Nov | 3,464 |
| Dec | 318 |
The most affected areas
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | 8,514 |
| Central Greece | 7,984 |
| Central Macedonia | 5,153 |
| Attica | 4,339 |
| Peloponnese | 3,697 |
| Thessaly | 2,595 |
| Western Greece | 2,555 |
| South Aegean | 2,006 |
| North Aegean | 1,723 |
| Western Macedonia | 1,314 |
| Crete | 1,182 |
| Epirus | 949 |
The season is not the same everywhere
Each row is scaled to its own peak, so the comparison is between calendars rather than volumes. A row lighting up in summer is a forest-fire regime; a row lighting up in late winter signals agricultural burning.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Jan: 104 · Feb: 325 · Mar: 389 · Apr: 87 · May: 21 · Jun: 71 · Jul: 508 · Aug: 5,732 · Sep: 339 · Oct: 289 · Nov: 634 · Dec: 15 |
| Central Greece | Jan: 107 · Feb: 144 · Mar: 175 · Apr: 69 · May: 36 · Jun: 113 · Jul: 971 · Aug: 5,752 · Sep: 64 · Oct: 176 · Nov: 349 · Dec: 28 |
| Central Macedonia | Jan: 511 · Feb: 1,113 · Mar: 882 · Apr: 190 · May: 57 · Jun: 167 · Jul: 375 · Aug: 351 · Sep: 82 · Oct: 428 · Nov: 905 · Dec: 92 |
| Attica | Jan: 7 · Feb: 8 · Mar: 14 · Apr: 30 · May: 280 · Jun: 134 · Jul: 973 · Aug: 2,692 · Sep: 132 · Oct: 33 · Nov: 33 · Dec: 3 |
| Peloponnese | Jan: 38 · Feb: 82 · Mar: 148 · Apr: 85 · May: 211 · Jun: 94 · Jul: 629 · Aug: 1,447 · Sep: 562 · Oct: 271 · Nov: 109 · Dec: 21 |
| Thessaly | Jan: 79 · Feb: 147 · Mar: 194 · Apr: 53 · May: 37 · Jun: 96 · Jul: 264 · Aug: 148 · Sep: 97 · Oct: 918 · Nov: 544 · Dec: 18 |
| Western Greece | Jan: 42 · Feb: 104 · Mar: 157 · Apr: 98 · May: 25 · Jun: 94 · Jul: 378 · Aug: 993 · Sep: 175 · Oct: 260 · Nov: 215 · Dec: 14 |
| South Aegean | Jan: 43 · Feb: 8 · Mar: 15 · Apr: 47 · May: 25 · Jun: 89 · Jul: 1,404 · Aug: 149 · Sep: 95 · Oct: 35 · Nov: 67 · Dec: 29 |
| North Aegean | Jan: 19 · Feb: 26 · Mar: 34 · Apr: 27 · May: 0 · Jun: 420 · Jul: 425 · Aug: 424 · Sep: 24 · Oct: 55 · Nov: 253 · Dec: 16 |
| Western Macedonia | Jan: 55 · Feb: 239 · Mar: 183 · Apr: 71 · May: 20 · Jun: 28 · Jul: 105 · Aug: 143 · Sep: 33 · Oct: 255 · Nov: 151 · Dec: 31 |
Regions
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | 8,514 |
| Central Greece | 7,984 |
| Central Macedonia | 5,153 |
| Attica | 4,339 |
| Peloponnese | 3,697 |
| Thessaly | 2,595 |
| Western Greece | 2,555 |
| South Aegean | 2,006 |
| North Aegean | 1,723 |
| Western Macedonia | 1,314 |
| Crete | 1,182 |
| Epirus | 949 |
| Ionian Islands | 641 |
The largest recorded fires
The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.
5,355 detections · 71.5 km across · 4,612 MW
4,639 detections · 45.4 km across · 4,183 MW
1,205 detections · 37 km across · 2,138 MW
815 detections · 24.1 km across · 1,890 MW
798 detections · 35.4 km across · 3,983 MW
A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.
Aerial response in Greece
16 verified aircraft in the catalog, tracked over ADS-B when they transmit.
See the Greece registerThe questions people ask
- Where are the wildfires in Greece today?
- The region table below shows, for each of them, the satellite detections from the last 24 hours. Open a region to go down to the province, or go straight to the map, which shows every detection point with its time and its power.
- Which regions of Greece burn the most?
- The ranking below answers directly: regions are sorted by satellite detections over five years, most affected first. Each row leads to a page detailing its season, its worst years and its largest fires.
- When is the fire season in Greece?
- Over five years, August is the month with the most detections in Greece. But a national average hides opposite regimes: the Mediterranean coast burns in summer, while some inland regions peak in late winter because of agricultural burning.
- Can this map replace an official alert?
- No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.
How to read this page
A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.
The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.
Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 4,210 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 51 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 772 detections were removed.
Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.
The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.
Data sources
Archive built on July 31, 2026, covering 2020 to 2026.