Impressively alarming are the results from the updated analysis of the burned areas from the forest fires in the continental parts of the Attica Region: 37% of the forests have been burned down in the last 8 years, that is from 2017 until mid-August 2024.
According to the meteo service of the National Observatory of Athens, based on data from the Copernicus Fast Mapping Service and the European Observatory on Forest Fires (EFFIS) 13 large fires have burned more than 700,000 hectares from 2017 until August 13, 2024.
Map: Perimeter of burned areas in the Attica Region from 2017 to today. Red and Pink mark the areas burned in 2023 and 2024 (as of 13/8), Yellow and Orange mark the areas burned in the previous 8 years. The wider area of the Attica basin is marked in Gray.
The total area of the Attica Region (excluding the area of Troizinia, the islands and the Basin) is 2,500,000 acres, so in the last 8 years 26% of the total area has been burned by forest fires.
In the Attica Region, the area of forest lands is approximately 1,230,000 acres and in the last 8 years, 450,000 acres of forest have been burned, i.e. 37% of the forest area.
Some 25,370 hectares of forests were lost in 2021 and 21,560 hectares in 2023.
The big forest fire over the weekend that started in Varnavas and reached the residential zone in north-eastern Attica Basin, 40 km away, burned down a large part of the forest area of 9.600 hectares.
The fire destroyed the fauna and the flora in the area, houses, businesses and vehicles and claimed the life of one worker.
We are killing ourselves with climate change & continuing the use of coal, oil & gas…we’ve been talking about this for over 40 years & we are still in wars with each other…wake up Greece!!
Maybe better to wake up to the agenda.
I wanted to warn that my comment is conspiracy theory, but catlover is already here with the same message.
This was done by men, not by climate change. Climate change is real, sure, but this is not the cause here.