How long did the Al-Malikeyyeh fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 17 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (7 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.

How much area did it burn?

There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 280 hectares with fire (2.8 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Al-Malikeyyeh (266 ha, 0.2 %).

Is the Al-Malikeyyeh fire still active?

Yes: satellites detected fire on 23 Oct 2026, 10:24 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 30.7 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, class Moderate.

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.

SY · Syria · 2026-10-17 → 2026-10-23

Al-Malikeyyeh fire, October 2026 Al-Malikeyyeh

Burning · last detection 23 Oct 2026, 10:24 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 17 October 2026 in Al-Malikeyyeh, Syria. It has been active for 7 days, with 20 heat detections and an area with fire of about 280 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single municipality.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Is it still active?

Satellites detected fire on 23 Oct 2026, 10:24 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. 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.

Area with fire: ≈ 280ha; rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration: 7days; 17 Oct 2026 – 23 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; subdistricts
Started on: 17 Oct; 2026
Heat detections: 20; in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Danger at start: 2; Very low · FWI index
Energy released: 79MW; sum of detected power

Play back 23 Oct 2026

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Oct23 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

31°high

27km/h · peak gust

23%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

What happened to each town

Al-Malikeyyeh where it started

266 ha reached on 17 Oct

0.2 %

Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

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)
17 Oct	30.7 °C	29 %	27 km/h	11.7 mm	Very low 2
18 Oct	30.4 °C	30 %	23 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 9
19 Oct	27.9 °C	23 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
20 Oct	27.5 °C	27 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
21 Oct	27.6 °C	30 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
22 Oct	27.9 °C	29 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
23 Oct	27.8 °C	28 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 10 Oct 2026

After · 22 Oct 2026

Before After

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

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 16 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³

Days over the guideline5 days

PM1075 µg/m³

Optical depth0.85

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 20Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Al-Malikeyyeh fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 17 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (7 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?: There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 280 hectares with fire (2.8 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Al-Malikeyyeh (266 ha, 0.2 %).
Is the Al-Malikeyyeh fire still active?: Yes: satellites detected fire on 23 Oct 2026, 10:24 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 30.7 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, class Moderate.
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.

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.