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Rabee'a fire, July 2021 Kansaba, Badama, Rabee'a

Out · last detection 29 Jul 2021, 10:42 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2021 in Rabee'a, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 166 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 26th largest in Lattakia since 2016 (of 38 with a page). Number 15 in Syria in 2021, of 23.

Burnt area
166ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
29 Jul 2021 – 29 Jul 2021
Municipalities hit
3
subdistricts
Started on
29 Jul
2021
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 69 MW
Danger at start
38
High · FWI index
Energy released
130MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul29 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

29

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
45km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 47 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.4 mm on 8 Aug.

This area had burned before

8% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 12 ha in 2016, 1 ha in 2018.

What happened to each town

  1. Kansaba
    82 ha reached on 29 Jul
    0.5 %
  2. Badama
    56 ha
    0.5 %
  3. Rabee'a where it started
    29 ha reached on 29 Jul
    0.1 %

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

  • Mixed forest44 %
  • Other natural land27 %
  • Agricultural areas16 %
  • Coniferous forest10 %
  • Artificial surfaces2.4 %

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)
29 Jul 32.9 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
30 Jul after 32.5 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
31 Jul after 32.6 °C 47 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Aug after 33.3 °C 40 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Aug after 33.4 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Aug after 34.8 °C 41 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
4 Aug after 35.8 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
5 Aug after 34.7 °C 36 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Aug after 33.9 °C 38 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Aug after 33.0 °C 40 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
8 Aug after 29.1 °C 55 % 47 km/h 4.4 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jul 2021
After · 5 Aug 2021

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 · 2Every 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 Rabee'a fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2021 and 29 July 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 166 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Kansaba (82 ha, 0.5 %); Badama (56 ha, 0.5 %); Rabee'a (29 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class 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.

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.