The popular tourist island has started evacuations after 19,000 had to leave Rhodes.
Corfu has become the latest Greek island to issue an evacuation order, as the country grapples with wildfires.
Many were forced to flee their hotels as the flames continued to spread from the centre of the Greek island. Late on Sunday evening Greece's Emergency Communications Service published evacuation orders for a number of areas of Corfu. Some 16,000 people were evacuated by land and 3,000 by sea on the island, according to local officials. Greece's Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was "the largest evacuation from a wildfire in the country".
At least three hotels have been destroyed in the dense forest area of Kiotari on the east of the island.
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