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Wildfires in Rafah

Rafah, Egypt, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 4,180 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 30° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 28° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 28° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 28° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 28° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 62 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 59 % · 36 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,180
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
1
fires
1,027
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Rafah

  1. 4,180 ha Rafah fire, May 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 4,157 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OCHA ROMENA/HDX, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).