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Wildfires in Al Marqab

Al Marqab, Libya, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2020: 315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 23 High 27° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 28° · 32 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 25° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 25° · 47 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 24° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 25° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 24° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 26° · 33 % · 37 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

315
hectares burned
0.0 %
of its area
1
fires
8,050
km²

How many times has Al Marqab burned?

Al Marqab has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba fire, May 2020, with 315 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
315
cumulative ha
5 May 2020
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 Libya →

Fires that entered Al Marqab

  1. 315 ha Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba fire, May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 736 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Natural Earth (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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