Burned area
satellite only2,943ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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Ras Al Ain fire, 27 June 2019 Ras Al Ain, Tal Tamer
Out · last detection 30 Jun 2019, 09:52 UTC
The fire started on 27 June 2019 in Ras Al Ain, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,943 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 5th largest in Al-Hasakeh since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 15 in Syria in 2019, of 163.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only4days
27 Jun 2019 to 30 Jun 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 30 Jun 2019, 09:52 UTC
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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.
Start
satellite only27 Jun 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 Jun 2019
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only42
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 69 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 27 Jun 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,227MW
Total radiative power on 30 June 2019; hotspots that day: 40.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 30 Jun 2019
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model83.3FWI · very extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 53.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 27 Jun 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model44.1°C · 10% RH
High of 44.1 °C and minimum humidity of 10% on 27 June 2019; gusts of 49 km/h on 27 June 2019.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 27 Jun 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 400people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 2.1 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2020).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 30 June 2019 → 27 June 2019.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 26 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,943 ha
- Dates
- 27 Jun 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
- Name
- Ras Al Ain
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/ras-al-ain-2019-06-3?v=2026-10-26A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire ras-al-ain-2019-06-3.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-27 | 2 | 19 | 44.1 | 29.2 | 10 | 26.1 | 49 | 0 | 83.3 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2019-06-28 | 0 | 0 | 42.7 | 30 | 10 | 26.5 | 47.9 | 0 | 84.3 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2019-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 40.5 | 26.8 | 7 | 23.8 | 44.6 | 0 | 79.9 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2019-06-30 | 40 | 1,227 | 36.6 | 27.6 | 11 | 24.7 | 46.8 | 0 | 75.6 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2019-07-01 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 22.7 | 9 | 18.8 | 37.8 | 0 | 66.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-02 | 0 | 0 | 38.8 | 23.8 | 3 | 16.7 | 27.4 | 0 | 66.2 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-03 | 0 | 0 | 38.3 | 23.4 | 11 | 18.9 | 35.3 | 0 | 67.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-04 | 0 | 0 | 40.5 | 24.3 | 10 | 23.2 | 40.3 | 0 | 74.5 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-05 | 0 | 0 | 40.8 | 26.6 | 11 | 24.9 | 45.7 | 0 | 77.6 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 40.2 | 25.5 | 12 | 19.5 | 38.2 | 0 | 68.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-07 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 26.7 | 11 | 23 | 42.5 | 0 | 74.5 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-08 | 0 | 0 | 40.8 | 27.2 | 11 | 25.2 | 46.8 | 0 | 78.5 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-09 | 0 | 0 | 41.1 | 29.5 | 9 | 23.4 | 45.7 | 0 | 75.8 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2019-07-10 | 0 | 0 | 41.4 | 29.9 | 9 | 18.5 | 32.8 | 0 | 68.3 | extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 2,943ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 27 Jun 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 27 Jun
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 42
- in a single hotspot: 69 MW
- Danger at start
- 83
- Very extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 622MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
27 Jun30 Jun
30 Jun 2019
How it evolved, day by day
27 Jun
30 Jun
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
44°high
49km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity
It had gone 53 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.
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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Ras Al Ain where it started2,947 ha reached on 27 Jun1.0 %
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3 ha0.0 %
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
- Agricultural areas100 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area2.1 ha
Residents≈ 400
Inside the perimeter there were about 2.1 hectares of built-up land and about 400 residents (GHSL 2020, 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.
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)
Started with Very dry air: 52 % of the area in Syria
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jun | 44.1 °C | 10 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 83 |
| 28 Jun | 42.7 °C | 10 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 84 |
| 29 Jun | 40.5 °C | 7 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 80 |
| 30 Jun | 36.6 °C | 11 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 76 |
| 1 Jul after | 36.2 °C | 9 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 67 |
| 2 Jul after | 38.8 °C | 3 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 3 Jul after | 38.3 °C | 11 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
| 4 Jul after | 40.5 °C | 10 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 74 |
| 5 Jul after | 40.8 °C | 11 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 78 |
| 6 Jul after | 40.2 °C | 12 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 69 |
| 7 Jul after | 42.0 °C | 11 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 74 |
| 8 Jul after | 40.8 °C | 11 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 78 |
| 9 Jul after | 41.1 °C | 9 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 76 |
| 10 Jul after | 41.4 °C | 9 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 83.3, a minimum humidity of 10% and 53 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 8.
FWI at the start
83.3
Minimum humidity
10 %
Days without rain
53
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Ras Al Ain fire, 27 June 2019
2,943 ha
4 days
FWI 83.3
Min. humidity 10 %
Shadadah fire, July 2019
204 ha
3 days
FWI 83.6
Min. humidity 15 %
90 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Ein Issa fire, July 2019
139 ha
1 day
FWI 85.0
Min. humidity 16 %
129 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Sarin fire, July 2019
460 ha
1 day
FWI 71.2
Min. humidity 10 %
135 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Ras Al Ain fire, August 2019
372 ha
3 days
FWI 68.4
Min. humidity 10 %
41 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Sarin fire, July 2019
247 ha
1 day
FWI 69.0
Min. humidity 10 %
153 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 8. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
49km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 30 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 20 Jun 2019
After · 7 Jul 2019
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Detections table · 42Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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 |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 245 haTal Tamer25 September 2019 · 6 days · 13 km away
- 1,071 haRas Al Ain2 July 2019 · 6 days · 22 km away
- 197 haTal Tamer15 October 2019 · 5 days · 30 km away
- 1,498 haRas Al Ain23 June 2019 · 1 day · 33 km away
- 628 haAl-Hasakeh12 September 2019 · 4 days · 33 km away
- 432 haRas Al Ain1 July 2019 · 1 day · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ras Al Ain fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 June 2019 to 30 June 2019 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 June 2019 to 30 June 2019.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,943 hectares (29.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ras Al Ain (2,947 ha, 1.0 %); Tal Tamer (3 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 44.1 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 84, class Very 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: 30 June 2019 → 27 June 2019.
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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 30 June 2019 to 30 June 2019. 42 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 2020, 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.