Beit Yashout fire, August 2025 As-Suqaylabiyah, Shat-ha, Harf Elmseitra
The fire started on 9 August 2025 in Beit Yashout, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 5,148 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 6 municipalities.
It is the 3th largest in Lattakia since 2016 (of 38 with a page). Number 2 in Syria in 2025, of 17.
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- Burnt area
- 5,148ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 8days
- 9 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 6
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 9 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 331
- in a single hotspot: 304 MW
- Danger at start
- 46
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 1.9GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 89 ha in 2016, 6 ha in 2020, 39 ha in 2021.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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2,655 ha reached on 11 Aug12 %
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1,407 ha reached on 14 Aug7.5 %
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399 ha reached on 13 Aug7.3 %
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339 ha reached on 10 Aug2.0 %
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321 ha reached on 15 Aug4.9 %
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Beit Yashout where it started37 ha reached on 9 Aug0.6 %
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
- Mixed forest36 %
- Coniferous forest21 %
- Other natural land19 %
- Agricultural areas15 %
- Broadleaved forest9.0 %
- Artificial surfaces1.0 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 9.1 hectares of built-up land and about 1,300 residents (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug | 45.2 °C | 18 % | 32 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 46 |
| 10 Aug | 40.3 °C | 34 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 11 Aug | 42.1 °C | 25 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 12 Aug | 41.0 °C | 26 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 13 Aug | 41.7 °C | 14 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 14 Aug | 41.6 °C | 16 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 15 Aug | 38.3 °C | 26 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 16 Aug | 33.2 °C | 49 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 17 Aug after | 31.7 °C | 54 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 18 Aug after | 31.9 °C | 53 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 19 Aug after | 31.6 °C | 52 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 20 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 45 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 21 Aug after | 34.3 °C | 47 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 22 Aug after | 35.9 °C | 41 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 23 Aug after | 36.0 °C | 38 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 24 Aug after | 35.4 °C | 37 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 25 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 47 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 26 Aug after | 31.5 °C | 56 % | 42 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 26 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 16 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 61 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 42: 2.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 331Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Beit Yashout fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 9 August 2025 to 16 August 2025 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 August 2025 to 16 August 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 5,148 hectares (51.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 6 municipalities: As-Suqaylabiyah (2,655 ha, 12 %); Shat-ha (1,407 ha, 7.5 %); Harf Elmseitra (399 ha, 7.3 %); Al-Qardaha (339 ha, 2.0 %); Jobet Berghal (321 ha, 4.9 %); Beit Yashout (37 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 45.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 10 August 2025 → 9 August 2025.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 August 2025 to 16 August 2025. 331 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 2025, 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.