🇬🇷 Greece: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Greece, August 2026: 9 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 4 October at 20:03.
Busiest day: 10 August, with 2 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 9 detection events in Greece, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 1141 MW."
Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livadeiá | 25 Aug, 13:48 | 172 | 1141 |
| Orchomenós | 13 Aug, 12:58 | 14 | 94 |
| Kouvarás | 10 Aug, 04:48 | 19 | 94 |
| Pelópi | 9 Aug, 15:40 | 9 | 92 |
| Ágios Pétros | 24 Aug, 13:28 | 18 | 59 |
| Kokkinóchoma | 10 Aug, 13:48 | 13 | 52 |
| Sitia | 6 Aug, 01:50 | 22 | 46 |
| Vamvakoú | 24 Aug, 08:28 | 8 | 45 |
| Kilkís | 18 Aug, 11:28 | 8 | 43 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Greece, August 2026: 9 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-04.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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