More than 120,000 hectares of land have burned across Greece in 2023 up until Wednesday according to the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo.gr.
At the same time, the European Observatory of Forest Fires noted the 2023 Greece wildfires’ burned land area is three times larger than the average annually burned land since 2006.
The 2023 destruction is the second worst over the last 17 years, with 2007 remaining as the worst year with 270,000 hectares of burned land.
The data recorded by the European Forest Fire Observatory regarding the devastating consequences of forest fires in Greece during the current (2023) fire protection season are all negative.
Note:
- 1 Greek unit stremma = 1,000 sq meters.
- 1 hectare – 10 stremmata
Details by meteo.gr
🔥Until Wednesday 23.08.2023, the forest fires that have occurred in our country have burned more than 1,200,000 stremmata.
🔥The area that has burned until Wednesday 23.08.2023 corresponds to approximately 3 times the area that on average (2006 – 2022) is burned annually in Greece.
🔥Until today (Wednesday, 23.08.2023) the burned areas in our country fall short by about 40,000 stremmata from the next worst performance recorded in 2021 with a total of 1,300,590 stremmata.
🔥It is very possible that the year 2023 will be characterized as the second worst of the last 17 years (2007 remains first, with more than 2,700,000 stremmata).
🔥During July 2023 more than 520,000 stremmata were burned, while during August 2023 (up to Wednesday 23.08.2023) more than 730,000 stremmata were burned.
🔥In the last 3 years (2021, 2022, 2023), forest fires in our country have burned almost 3,000,000 stremmata.
PS it is the famous New Democracy fire protection policy: Evacuate people, let the fire end in the sea.
