Nablus fire, July 2024 Nablus
The fire started on 5 July 2024 in Nablus, Palestinian Territories, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 291 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 6th largest in West Bank since 2016 (of 14 with a page). The largest in Palestinian Territories in 2024, of 5.
- Burnt area
- 291ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 5 Jul 2024 – 5 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- governorates
- Started on
- 5 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 7
- in a single hotspot: 11 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- Very high · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 40 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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Nablus where it started292 ha reached on 4 Jul0.5 %
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
- Other natural land100 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Jul | 32.1 °C | 40 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 6 Jul after | 29.5 °C | 47 % | 42 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 32 |
| 7 Jul after | 30.2 °C | 49 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 8 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 45 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 9 Jul after | 33.1 °C | 44 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 10 Jul after | 34.0 °C | 38 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 11 Jul after | 34.7 °C | 30 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 12 Jul after | 34.2 °C | 33 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 13 Jul after | 32.6 °C | 41 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 14 Jul after | 29.9 °C | 51 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 15 Jul after | 30.8 °C | 51 % | 41 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 29 |
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 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 7Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Nablus fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 5 July 2024 and 5 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 291 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Nablus (292 ha, 0.5 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 32.1 °C, humidity dropped to 40 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Palestinian Territories (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.
Emergency number: 102
Satellite cross-check
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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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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.