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Al-Hasakeh fire, 1 June 2019 Al-Hasakeh

Out · last detection 1 Jun 2019, 10:36 UTC

The fire started on 1 June 2019 in Al-Hasakeh, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 521 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 26th largest in Al-Hasakeh since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 57 in Syria in 2019, of 163.

Burnt area
521ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
1 Jun 2019 – 1 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
subdistricts
Started on
1 Jun
2019
Heat detections
3
in a single hotspot: 37 MW
Danger at start
60
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
56MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jun1 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

1

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

41°high
31km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 27 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 10 Jun.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Al-Hasakeh where it started
    522 ha reached on 1 Jun
    0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas99 %
  • Other natural land1.0 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
1 Jun 40.8 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
2 Jun after 41.4 °C 14 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
3 Jun after 41.2 °C 11 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
4 Jun after 39.6 °C 12 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 72
5 Jun after 39.5 °C 16 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
6 Jun after 38.2 °C 18 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
7 Jun after 38.0 °C 16 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
8 Jun after 39.7 °C 13 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
9 Jun after 40.6 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
10 Jun after 42.7 °C 11 % 43 km/h 1.3 mm Extreme 67

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 25 May 2019
After · 8 Jun 2019

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 3Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Al-Hasakeh fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 June 2019 and 1 June 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 521 hectares (5.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Al-Hasakeh (522 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.8 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Syria (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.