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Greece Fire & Heat Status

Live picture: 25 deduped satellite heat locations in the last 24 h. Greek fire season peaks July–September, and island evacuations mid-holiday are a real, recurring pattern (Rhodes 2023 moved ~19,000 tourists). Civil Protection publishes a daily fire-risk map that locals take seriously — you should too.

25deduped satellite heat locations, last 24 h
12areas under fire warning
0red weather alerts live
0orange weather alerts live
14yellow weather alerts live

Current Greece fire and travel warnings

These are the same editorial warnings used on the home page, shown here beside the live country map so the map, country page and incident pages do not drift apart.

AthensThessalonikiPatrasPiraeusLarisaVolosIoanninaTrikalaChalkidaKalamataKavalaAlexandroupoliCorfuHeraklionChaniaRhodes16 heat locations · combined intensity 813 MW3 heat locations · combined intensity 4 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 6 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 2 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 5 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 3 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 3 MW1 heat location · combined intensity 1 MW
Satellite heat detection, last 24 h Reference city
NASA VIIRS + MODIS heat detections from multiple satellites, 24 h to 16 August at 09:45 UK time, clustered — refreshed daily. A detection is a satellite heat signature, usually fire.

Live hotspot list

Tap any hotspot below to show it on the map. Official incident matches are shown where available; unmatched areas remain satellite heat clusters from the last 24 h, grouped by nearest locality, strongest first. The heat may be in countryside or industrial land outside the named place.

Skýros1 area · very strong heat signal
Ormýlia1 area · low heat signal

Major wildfires in Greece right now

Active fireUpdated 16 August at 01:00 (9h ago)

The fire risk map has narrowed to four areas today, and Crete's forest and gorge bans come on with it

The civil protection ministry's daily map has come down a long way. For Sunday 16 August it puts no part of the country at category 5, the alarm level, and category 4, very high risk, now covers four areas rather than the dozen or so it covered yesterday: the region of Attica, Central Greece in Boeotia and Euboea including the island of Skyros, the Cyclades in the South Aegean, and Crete. The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has told agencies and local authorities to stay on heightened readiness so they can move quickly if a fire starts.

A step down from the alarm level does not change what you should do with a flame. On a category 4 day the answer to anything involving a spark near dry ground is still no. That means no barbecue, no strimmer, no welding, no bonfire and no sky lantern, and it means treating a hot exhaust parked over dry grass as a real risk rather than a technicality. Burning field stubble is banned outright through the fire season.

Crete is on the category 4 list today, and that keeps the island's own restrictions switched on. The regional ban on entering, driving through or parking in the designated forests, gorges, peri-urban woods and stretches of the E4 path is triggered by a category 4 or category 5 rating, and it applies across all of the island's regional units. The measure comes and goes with the rating, so read the day's map before you plan a gorge walk rather than assuming today's answer holds tomorrow.

What the rating does not tell you is where a fire is. If you are heading for the small roads west out of Attica towards the Gulf of Corinth, or into the hills of Boeotia, check with your host before you set off rather than driving over and finding out. Keep your phone on and off silent: the 112 service sends evacuation messages by area, and they are the fastest warning you will get.

  • Boeotia and the Gulf of Corinth coast Inland Boeotia from Xironomi south over Mount Kithairon to the north shore of the Gulf of Corinth, and west Attica around Megara and Vilia

    Athens and its airport run normally: this is a mainland fire about seventy to eighty kilometres north-west of the city, not an island one. Keep your phone on and off silent for 112 evacuation messages if you are staying on that stretch of coast, and check with your accommodation before driving the coast road towards Corinth.

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Check directly: Civil Protection (daily risk map) · EMY (Hellenic Met Service)

Full incident pageThe named event, its traveller guidance and official sources

This is traveller-focused editorial from the daily morning run, and every claim in it is checked against an official source before it is published; the official sources above are always the authority. In danger anywhere in the EU, call 112.

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Sources: NASA FIRMS · MeteoAlarm.
Satellite and forecast figures refreshed 16 August 2026 at 10:23 UK time. Fire and disruption reporting verified against official sources the same day. Conditions change hourly during fires. National authorities are always right. In danger anywhere in the EU, call 112.

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