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Wildfires in Baabda

Baabda, Lebanon, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 324 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 22 Low 23° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 24° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 24° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 24° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Low 23° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 79 % · 32 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

324
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
2
fires
196
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Baabda

  1. 140 ha Baabda fire, 9 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 184 ha Baabda fire, 7 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 183 ha in total · 4 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).