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Wildfires in Chouf

Chouf, Lebanon, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,730 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% 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. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 67 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 21° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 46 % · 55 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 56 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 68 % · 40 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

1,730
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
6
fires
482
km²

How many times has Chouf burned?

Chouf has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Chouf fire, November 2025, with 153 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
1,730
cumulative ha
10 Nov 2025
most recent

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 Chouf

  1. 153 ha Chouf fire, November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 225 ha Chouf fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 224 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 184 ha Chouf fire, July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 184 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 174 ha Chouf fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 267 ha Chouf fire, October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 267 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 727 ha Aley fire, October 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 1,092 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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