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Rabee'a fire, July 2025 Rabee'a

Out · last detection 4 Jul 2025, 10:19 UTC

The fire started on 4 July 2025 in Rabee'a, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 116 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 33th largest in Lattakia since 2016 (of 38 with a page). Number 15 in Syria in 2025, of 17.

The power measured by the satellite is low (11.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
116ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
4 Jul 2025 – 5 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
subdistricts
Started on
4 Jul
2025
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start
43
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
18MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Jul5 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

4

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
50km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 30 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

78% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 34 ha in 2019, 9 ha in 2020, 20 ha in 2021, 52 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 91 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Rabee'a where it started
    116 ha reached on 1 Jul
    0.6 %

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 forest51 %
  • Other natural land35 %
  • Coniferous forest14 %

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)
4 Jul 29.7 °C 21 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
5 Jul 29.5 °C 23 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
6 Jul after 30.4 °C 33 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Jul after 30.3 °C 45 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Jul after 29.3 °C 57 % 49 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
9 Jul after 28.7 °C 54 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
10 Jul after 28.9 °C 57 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
11 Jul after 30.6 °C 40 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Jul after 30.6 °C 48 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
13 Jul after 29.4 °C 49 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
14 Jul after 27.9 °C 55 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
15 Jul after 27.1 °C 62 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Jun 2025
After · 12 Jul 2025

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 7 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 51 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 28: 1.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak51 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1078 µg/m³
Optical depth0.23
2345678
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 · 4Every 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 4 July 2025 and 5 July 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 116 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Rabee'a (116 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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.

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.