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Wildfires in Sour

Sour, Lebanon, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 938 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 23° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 25° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 28° · 37 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 59 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 55 % · 39 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

938
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
6
fires
409
km²

How many times has Sour burned?

Sour has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Sour fire, November 2025, with 200 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
938
cumulative ha
23 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 Sour

  1. 200 ha Sour fire, November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 200 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 254 ha Sour fire, October 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 253 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 183 ha Sour fire, 25 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 186 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 195 ha Sour fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 206 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 101 ha Sour fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 4 ha Bent Jbail fire, July 2019 0.0% 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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