Burned area
satellite only311ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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SY · Syria ·
Al-Hasakeh fire, 20 June 2019 Al-Hasakeh
Out · last detection 20 Jun 2019, 11:20 UTC
The fire started on 20 June 2019 in Al-Hasakeh, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 311 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 34th largest in Al-Hasakeh since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 79 in Syria in 2019, of 163.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
20 Jun 2019 to 20 Jun 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 20 Jun 2019, 11:20 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only20 Jun 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 20 Jun 2019
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only6
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 102 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 20 Jun 2019 – 20 Jun 2019
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only465MW
Total radiative power on 20 June 2019; hotspots that day: 6.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 20 Jun 2019
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model49.8FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 9.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 20 Jun 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model35.9°C · 24% RH
High of 35.9 °C and minimum humidity of 24% on 20 June 2019; gusts of 36 km/h on 20 June 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 20 Jun 2019 – 20 Jun 2019
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 311 ha
- Dates
- 20 Jun 2019 – 20 Jun 2019
- Name
- Al-Hasakeh
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/al-hasakeh-2019-06-6?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire al-hasakeh-2019-06-6.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-20 | 6 | 465 | 35.9 | 24.4 | 24 | 17.4 | 36 | 0 | 49.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2019-06-21 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 22.3 | 24 | 16.3 | 32.4 | 0 | 48.8 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2019-06-22 | 0 | 0 | 38.5 | 24.7 | 23 | 9.9 | 22.3 | 0 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2019-06-23 | 0 | 0 | 39.1 | 24.9 | 19 | 12 | 25.2 | 0 | 44.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2019-06-24 | 0 | 0 | 41.2 | 26.4 | 11 | 11.1 | 25.9 | 0 | 51.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-25 | 0 | 0 | 43.3 | 26.7 | 9 | 11.7 | 26.3 | 0 | 56.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-26 | 0 | 0 | 44.6 | 28.2 | 11 | 15.5 | 33.5 | 0 | 61.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-27 | 0 | 0 | 44.5 | 30.6 | 12 | 19.9 | 37.4 | 0 | 68.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-28 | 0 | 0 | 43.5 | 30 | 11 | 19.8 | 39.6 | 0 | 68.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 40.8 | 27.1 | 9 | 18.4 | 37.4 | 0 | 66.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-06-30 | 0 | 0 | 37.9 | 28.5 | 12 | 21.7 | 43.6 | 0 | 70.1 | muy_extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 311ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 20 Jun 2019 – 20 Jun 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 20 Jun
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 102 MW
- Danger at start
- 50
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 465MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
20 Jun20 Jun
How it evolved, day by day
20 Jun 2019 · 465 MW · 6
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
36°high
36km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity
It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Al-Hasakeh where it started312 ha reached on 20 Jun0.1 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Agricultural areas100 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun | 35.9 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 21 Jun after | 36.3 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 22 Jun after | 38.5 °C | 23 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 23 Jun after | 39.1 °C | 19 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 24 Jun after | 41.2 °C | 11 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 25 Jun after | 43.3 °C | 9 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 26 Jun after | 44.6 °C | 11 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 27 Jun after | 44.5 °C | 12 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
| 28 Jun after | 43.5 °C | 11 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
| 29 Jun after | 40.8 °C | 9 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 67 |
| 30 Jun after | 37.9 °C | 12 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 70 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 49.8, a minimum humidity of 24% and 9 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 27.
FWI at the start
49.8
Minimum humidity
24 %
Days without rain
9
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Al-Hasakeh fire, 20 June 2019
311 ha
1 day
FWI 49.8
Min. humidity 24 %
Mazıdağı fire, June 2016
554 ha
2 days
FWI 46.4
Min. humidity 24 %
89 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.8 mm on 19 Jun.
Samsat fire, July 2020
130 ha
4 days
FWI 49.4
Min. humidity 21 %
218 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Tal Tamer fire, September 2019
245 ha
6 days
FWI 47.8
Min. humidity 18 %
32 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Pütürge fire, July 2026
187 ha
1 day
FWI 47.3
Min. humidity 21 %
235 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Güçlükonak fire, August 2020
355 ha
2 days
FWI 53.8
Min. humidity 21 %
150 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 1 day
- median duration
- 245 ha
- median area
- 7 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 6 of 27 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (311 ha against a median of 245 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 1 day.
In 21 of 27, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
36km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 20 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 6 of 27, with a median of 1.8 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 13 Jun 2019
After · 27 Jun 2019
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Detections table · 6Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Al-Hasakeh fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 20 June 2019 and 20 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 311 hectares (3.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Al-Hasakeh (312 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very high.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 27. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 245 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. In 21 of 27, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
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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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 6 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.