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Districts that have burned most often in Lebanon

Districts of Lebanon with at least one fire larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 14. With two or more: 11. Top of the list is Bent Jbail, which has burned 19 times in 3 years, with 2,690 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1Bent JbailNabatîyé19×3 years · 2,690 ha
  2. 2MarjaayounNabatîyé18×4 years · 2,946 ha
  3. 3AkkarAakkâr9×4 years · 2,796 ha
  4. 4HasbayaNabatîyé8×2 years · 1,238 ha
  5. 5ChoufMont-Liban6×4 years · 1,730 ha
  6. 6SourLiban-Sud6×5 years · 938 ha
  7. 7JezzineLiban-Sud5×3 years · 338 ha
  8. 8ZahleBéqaa3×2 years · 422 ha
  9. 9AleyMont-Liban2×2 years · 513 ha
  10. 10BaabdaMont-Liban2×1 year · 324 ha
  11. 11HermelBaalbek-Hermel2×1 year · 68 ha
  12. 12BaalbekBaalbek-Hermel1×1 year · 163 ha
  13. 13West BekaaBéqaa1×1 year · 140 ha
  14. 14Minieh-DinniehLiban-Nord1×1 year · 1 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1MarjaayounNabatîyé2,946 ha18× · 11 %
  2. 2AkkarAakkâr2,796 ha9× · 3.5 %
  3. 3Bent JbailNabatîyé2,690 ha19× · 9.9 %
  4. 4ChoufMont-Liban1,730 ha6× · 3.6 %
  5. 5HasbayaNabatîyé1,238 ha8× · 4.6 %
  6. 6SourLiban-Sud938 ha6× · 2.3 %
  7. 7AleyMont-Liban513 ha2× · 1.9 %
  8. 8ZahleBéqaa422 ha3× · 1.0 %
  9. 9JezzineLiban-Sud338 ha5× · 1.4 %
  10. 10BaabdaMont-Liban324 ha2× · 1.6 %
  11. 11BaalbekBaalbek-Hermel163 ha1× · 0.1 %
  12. 12West BekaaBéqaa140 ha1× · 0.3 %
  13. 13HermelBaalbek-Hermel68 ha2× · 0.1 %
  14. 14Minieh-DinniehLiban-Nord1 ha1× · 0.0 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1MarjaayounNabatîyé11 %2,946 ha · 267 km²
  2. 2Bent JbailNabatîyé9.9 %2,690 ha · 272 km²
  3. 3HasbayaNabatîyé4.6 %1,238 ha · 266 km²
  4. 4ChoufMont-Liban3.6 %1,730 ha · 482 km²
  5. 5AkkarAakkâr3.5 %2,796 ha · 793 km²
  6. 6SourLiban-Sud2.3 %938 ha · 409 km²
  7. 7AleyMont-Liban1.9 %513 ha · 263 km²
  8. 8BaabdaMont-Liban1.6 %324 ha · 196 km²
  9. 9JezzineLiban-Sud1.4 %338 ha · 241 km²
  10. 10ZahleBéqaa1.0 %422 ha · 439 km²
  11. 11West BekaaBéqaa0.3 %140 ha · 424 km²
  12. 12HermelBaalbek-Hermel0.1 %68 ha · 528 km²
  13. 13BaalbekBaalbek-Hermel0.1 %163 ha · 2,321 km²
  14. 14Minieh-DinniehLiban-Nord0.0 %1 ha · 364 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.