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Wildfires in Bethlehem

Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2021: 101 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Mon 9 Moderate 18° · 31 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 10 High 20° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Moderate 18° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 13 High 23° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 14 High 24° · 28 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 15 High 23° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Moderate 22° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  9. Tue 17 Moderate 23° · 30 % · 21 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 Bethlehem: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

101
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
1
fires
658
km²

How many times has Bethlehem burned?

Bethlehem has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Bethlehem fire, June 2021, with 101 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
101
cumulative ha
6 Jun 2021
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 Palestinian Territories

Fires that entered Bethlehem

  1. 101 ha Bethlehem fire, June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Data Watch (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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