Greece’s Civil Protection warns of Extremely High Risk of Fires – Alert Category 5 – for 6 regions across the country as well as of Very High Risk – Category 4- and High Risk – Category 3- for Sunday, June 29, 2025.
Red: Alert, Orange: Very high risk, Yellow: High risk
Regions at state of emergency are: Attica, Kythira, Crete, Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Psara and Ikaria as well as places in Laconia and south Evia.
⚠️ Χάρτης Πρόβλεψης Κινδύνου 🔥 για αύριο Κυριακή 29/6
🔴 Ακραίος Κίνδυνος 5⃣ σε:
📍#Αττική & #Κύθηρα
📍περιοχές #Λακωνίας & νότιας #Εύβοιας
📍#Κρήτη
📍#Λέσβο #Σάμο #Χίο #Ψαρά & #Ικαρία🟠🟡 Πολύ υψηλός 4️⃣ & υψηλός κίνδυνος 3️⃣ στη λοιπή νησιωτική χώρα και σε πολλές περιοχές… pic.twitter.com/nGQLxP1Yn0
— Civil Protection GR (@CivPro_GR) June 28, 2025
Meteorologists and the National Meteorology Service EMY have warned of powerful northern winds blowing with intensity of 9 Beaufort in the Aegean Sea on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
Every summer wildfires destroy thousands of hectares in Greece due to human negligence or arson. Sometimes the cause can also be a lightening bolt of some defective cable of the old and not maintained network of the power distribution system.
According to initial estimations and evidence, the wildfire in south-eastern Attica on Thursday, June 26, was caused by a defective cable of a power column in a mixed residential and green area inside the Thymari, Palaia Fokaia settlement, Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, GGiannis Kefalogiannis stated on Friday.
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