Wildfire near Agios Vasileios (Jul 30)
Started on Jul 30, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Spanning 530 hectares (1,310 acres) within Greece's Municipality of Agios Vasileios, an active wildfire that began on July 30, 2026, continues to burn with a moderate heat intensity detected by satellites.
Monitoring systems have registered 41 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, highlighting the ongoing spread and active front of the blaze.
In context
This wildfire burned in Greece for 2 days. In total it burned about 530 ha (1,310 acres) — around 5.3 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Greece
Across Greece, roughly 33,524 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 33% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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