In the coastal village of Limni, many of its 1 500 population and tourists had to evacuate by boat to escape the apocalyptic blazes that turned the sky red in August.
"We have to make it in time for the winter. We did not have to mourn any victims during the wildfires, and it is very important that we don't have that problem with the floods," said the mayor of Limni, George Tsapourniotis.In the burnt woods over Limni, green shoots have started to emerge, a sign that the forest will slowly regrow by itself.
Evia had an annual output of 6,000 tonnes of resin, a crystallised sap extracted from the trunk of pine trees and used to make durable casting and flooring. This was about 85% of the country's total output. Yiannis Georgiou, a 40-year-old resin collector, has lost all his crop."I 've been really thinking of leaving. What can I do?"An EU atmosphere monitor has said that the Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot as human-induced climate change makes heatwaves more likely and more severe.
Relying heavily on imported fossil fuel, Greece says it will ditch coal in power generation by 2025 to cut carbon emissions in line with 2050 EU climate targets.