Burned area
satellite only107ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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SY · Syria ·
Tal Tamer fire, 7 September 2019 Tal Tamer
Out · last detection 7 Sept 2019, 09:58 UTC
The fire started on 7 September 2019 in Tal Tamer, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 107 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 62th largest in Al-Hasakeh since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 151 in Syria in 2019, of 163.
The power measured by the satellite is low (10.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
7 Sept 2019 to 7 Sept 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 7 Sept 2019, 09:58 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 only7 Sept 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 7 Sept 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 only3
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 10 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 7 Sept 2019 – 7 Sept 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 only20MW
Total radiative power on 7 September 2019; hotspots that day: 3.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 7 Sept 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
model66.0FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 60.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 7 Sept 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
model37.5°C · 19% RH
High of 37.5 °C and minimum humidity of 19% on 7 September 2019; gusts of 44 km/h on 7 September 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 7 Sept 2019 – 7 Sept 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.
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 perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 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
- 107 ha
- Dates
- 7 Sept 2019 – 7 Sept 2019
- Name
- Tal Tamer
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/tal-tamer-2019-09-2?v=2026-10-24A 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
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CSV for this fire tal-tamer-2019-09-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-07 | 3 | 20 | 37.5 | 24 | 19 | 24.6 | 43.6 | 0 | 66 | extremo | 1 |
| 2019-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 26.4 | 11 | 23.8 | 43.9 | 0 | 65.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 35.4 | 23.1 | 10 | 19.8 | 39.2 | 0 | 59.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 21 | 13 | 13.3 | 24.8 | 0 | 51.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-11 | 0 | 0 | 37.2 | 21.9 | 10 | 14 | 23.8 | 0 | 53.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-12 | 0 | 0 | 36.8 | 24.4 | 15 | 16.9 | 29.9 | 0 | 57.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-13 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 22.4 | 15 | 12.8 | 22.7 | 0 | 52.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 38.3 | 23.4 | 17 | 17.1 | 36 | 0 | 58.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-15 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 25.9 | 16 | 29.4 | 55.4 | 0.8 | 68.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2019-09-16 | 0 | 0 | 33.8 | 22.1 | 28 | 20.2 | 35.3 | 0 | 49.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2019-09-17 | 0 | 0 | 34.8 | 21.4 | 25 | 14.9 | 30.2 | 0 | 44.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 107ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 7 Sept 2019 – 7 Sept 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 7 Sept
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 3
- in a single hotspot: 10 MW
- Danger at start
- 66
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 20MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
7 Sept7 Sept
How it evolved, day by day
7 Sept 2019 · 20 MW · 3
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
44km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity
It had gone more than two months 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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Tal Tamer where it started108 ha reached on 7 Sept0.1 %
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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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 60 days without rain: 9.4 % of the area in Syria
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Sept | 37.5 °C | 19 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 8 Sept after | 36.2 °C | 11 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 65 |
| 9 Sept after | 35.4 °C | 10 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 10 Sept after | 36.0 °C | 13 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 11 Sept after | 37.2 °C | 10 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 12 Sept after | 36.8 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 13 Sept after | 36.7 °C | 15 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 14 Sept after | 38.3 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 15 Sept after | 39.0 °C | 16 % | 55 km/h | 0.8 mm | Extreme 69 |
| 16 Sept after | 33.8 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 17 Sept after | 34.8 °C | 25 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 66.0, a minimum humidity of 19% and more than two months without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 43.
FWI at the start
66.0
Minimum humidity
19 %
Days without rain
60+
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
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Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Tal Tamer fire, 7 September 2019
107 ha
1 day
FWI 66.0
Min. humidity 19 %
Sarin fire, August 2019
130 ha
1 day
FWI 66.5
Min. humidity 19 %
178 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Suluk fire, August 2019
158 ha
1 day
FWI 63.1
Min. humidity 20 %
90 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Nusaybin fire, July 2019
2,202 ha
1 day
FWI 64.0
Min. humidity 17 %
114 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Savur fire, August 2019
1,776 ha
3 days
FWI 69.7
Min. humidity 18 %
124 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Sokhneh fire, September 2020
383 ha
3 days
FWI 64.5
Min. humidity 16 %
178 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 1 day
- median duration
- 399 ha
- median area
- 30 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- —
- rain at the end (median; 0 of 43 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 107 ha against a median of 399 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 1 day.
In none of them did 1 mm fall in the ten days after the end: they all went out without rain.
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
44km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 7 Sept, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. None of its 43 twins had rain when they ended.
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 · 31 Aug 2019
After · 14 Sept 2019
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Detections table · 3Every 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Tal Tamer fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 7 September 2019 and 7 September 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 107 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Tal Tamer (108 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 43. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 399 ha; 30 % went past 1,000 ha. In none of them did 1 mm fall in the ten days after the end: they all went out without rain.
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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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 3 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.