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Wildfires in Akkar

Akkar, Lebanon, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 2,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 83 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 47 % · 50 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 64 % · 52 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

2,796
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
9
fires
793
km²

How many times has Akkar burned?

Akkar has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Akkar fire, July 2024, with 169 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,796 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,643 hectares, 3.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
2,796
cumulative ha
2,643
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 Lebanon →

Fires that entered Akkar

  1. 169 ha Akkar fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 169 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 102 ha Akkar fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 817 ha Akkar fire, 28 July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 882 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 303 ha Akkar fire, 28 July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 310 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 158 ha Akkar fire, 9 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 160 ha Akkar fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 228 ha Akkar fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 228 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 752 ha Akkar fire, 6 October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 750 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 106 ha Akkar fire, October 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 105 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikipedia (Public Domain). 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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