Summer Fire Alert

Greece will have higher temperatures soon. Wildfire alerts will come with them. Low rain and snow coverage during the winter months make the danger bigger this year.

If there's no rain, plants become drier. This can make fires spread faster. This happened in 2006-07 when there was half as much rain from January to April. The wildfires destroyed over 10 times the area.

The snow this year is lower by 25% compared to the average from 2004-21. An Athens Observatory researcher, Stavros Dafis, confirms this. It's even lower than the 2006-07 snow coverage. April had some rain, but it may not be enough to make up for the earlier low precipitation.