From 2017 to August 13, 2024, 13 large fires have burned more than 700,000 hectares according to reports from the Copernicus Fast Mapping Service and the European Observatory for Forest Fires (EFFIS). The perimeter of the burned areas is given on the map below.
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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. The recent fire that started from Varnavas Attica and reached the residential zone of Lekanopedi, burned a large part of the forest area of Northeastern Attica.
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