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Wildfires in Ashqelon

Ashqelon, Israel, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 2,213 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

Only fires of 100 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. Sat 14 Moderate 26° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 25° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 24° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 24° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 23° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 24° · 65 % · 29 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ashqelon: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,213
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
8
fires
1,278
km²

How many times has Ashqelon burned?

Ashqelon has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Ashqelon fire, July 2021, with 170 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,213 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,017 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
2,213
cumulative ha
2,017
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Israel

Fires that entered Ashqelon

  1. 170 ha Ashqelon fire, July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 170 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 224 ha Ashqelon fire, June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 537 ha Ashqelon fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 536 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 548 ha Ashqelon fire, 25 May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 555 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 132 ha Ashqelon fire, 15 May 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 301 ha Ashqelon fire, 15 May 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 300 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 132 ha Ashqelon fire, 13 May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 170 ha Ashqelon fire, 6 May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 170 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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