Damages but in addition burnt land from final 12 months’s lethal forest fires within the mountainous areas of Limassol and Larnaca far exceeded these recorded in 2020.
Furthermore, official statistics present a small enhance by 2.50% in 2021 within the variety of complete fires – city and rural – in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
In reality, final 12 months’s hearth outbreak image reminds of the catastrophic one in Solia in 2016, Philenews additionally reported on Tuesday.
The burnt space in the countryside in 2021 stands at 24,30 sq.km and this information a rise by 6,1 sq.km in comparison with 2020 which was 18,20 sq.km.
The image is even worse by way of the financial penalties of the fires.
Estimatd damages for the entire of 2021 was roughly €29,212,512 of which the quantity of €10,596,402 involved city fires and €18,616,110 rural ones.
In 2020, complete quantity of damages from fires was €9,915,210 of which the quantity of € 9,323,310 involved city fires and €591,000 rural ones.