According to the analysis of the latest satellite data, the fire in the Geranea Mountains is considered one of the largest in recent years and by far the most destructive fire in the last decade (in terms of area of burned out forests). According to the website meteo.gr, in the period 2000-2021. in Greece, 980 large forest fires were recorded. A fire that started in Schinos, Corinth, burned 21,000 hectares of forest out of 28,700 hectares of total burned-out area. During the last 20 years (2000-2021 period), there have been 980 major forest fires in Greece. Each of them burned an average of more than 500 hectares of forest and forest area. In fact, as the data analysis showed: The Gerania Mountains fire in Corinth-Attica, in terms of area of forest burned out, refers to the top 1% of major fires during the 2000-2021 period. Burned 21,000 hectares of forest and wooded area, this is the 13th largest forest fire in a row after the catastrophic fires of 2000 in Samos, Peloponnese, Ioannina and Karditsa, 2007 in the Peloponnese, 2008 in Rhodes and 2009 in the east Attica. This is the most destructive fire in terms of burned out forests in the last decade. Regarding the fire season in the Geranea Mountains, this is also a negative record for the spring season, since from 2000 to the present, no forest fire that occurred before June has burned more than 2000 hectares.
In the video from meteo.gr, you can see the spatial distribution of large forest fires (each of which burned more than 200 hectares) by year for the period 2010-2020. It also shows the areas that are most affected each year, based on the intensity and size of the outbreaks, while dynamic charts show the number of major fires per year. …
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