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Wildfires in Bent Jbail

Bent Jbail, Lebanon, has had 20 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 2,858 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 51 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 25 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 19° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Low 22° · 33 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Moderate 24° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bent Jbail: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,858
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
20
fires
272
km²

How many times has Bent Jbail burned?

Bent Jbail has burned 20 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bent Jbail fire, October 2026, with 168 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,858 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,664 hectares, 9.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 11× 24
  10.   25
  11. 8× 26
20
fires
3
years with fire
2,858
cumulative ha
2,664
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 Bent Jbail

  1. 168 ha Bent Jbail fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 167 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 319 ha Bent Jbail fire, September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 321 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 82 ha Bent Jbail fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 106 ha Bent Jbail fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 105 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 38 ha Marjaayoun fire, 5 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 203 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 330 ha Bent Jbail fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 330 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 40 ha Marjaayoun fire, June 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 193 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 101 ha Bent Jbail fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 160 ha Bent Jbail fire, 20 October 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 181 ha Bent Jbail fire, 20 October 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 181 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 101 ha Bent Jbail fire, 2 October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 86 ha Marjaayoun fire, September 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 0 ha Marjaayoun fire, July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 313 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 110 ha Bent Jbail fire, July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 173 ha Bent Jbail fire, 11 June 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 139 ha Bent Jbail fire, 11 June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 139 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 274 ha Bent Jbail fire, 5 June 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 313 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 138 ha Bent Jbail fire, 3 June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 168 ha Bent Jbail fire, May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 145 ha Bent Jbail fire, July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 199 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, 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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