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Governorates that have burned most often in Saudi Arabia

Governorates of Saudi Arabia with at least one fire larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 12. With two or more: 1. Top of the list is Bahrah, which has burned 2 times in 2 years, with 4,156 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1BahrahMakkah2×2 years · 4,156 ha
  2. 2Al MandaqAl Bahah1×1 year · 2,145 ha
  3. 3TabukTabuk1×1 year · 1,718 ha
  4. 4AbhaAsir1×1 year · 1,479 ha
  5. 5Al LithMakkah1×1 year · 1,260 ha
  6. 6AdamMakkah1×1 year · 809 ha
  7. 7MaysanMakkah1×1 year · 801 ha
  8. 8HarubJazan1×1 year · 745 ha
  9. 9Ar RaythJazan1×1 year · 407 ha
  10. 10Al TaifMakkah1×1 year · 256 ha
  11. 11Makkah Al MukarramahMakkah1×1 year · 42 ha
  12. 12Al QaraAl Bahah1×1 year · 2 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1BahrahMakkah4,156 ha2× · 0.9 %
  2. 2Al MandaqAl Bahah2,145 ha1× · 8.4 %
  3. 3TabukTabuk1,718 ha1× · 0.0 %
  4. 4AbhaAsir1,479 ha1× · 0.2 %
  5. 5Al LithMakkah1,260 ha1× · 0.1 %
  6. 6AdamMakkah809 ha1× · 0.5 %
  7. 7MaysanMakkah801 ha1× · 0.2 %
  8. 8HarubJazan745 ha1× · 1.5 %
  9. 9Ar RaythJazan407 ha1× · 0.5 %
  10. 10Al TaifMakkah256 ha1× · 0.0 %
  11. 11Makkah Al MukarramahMakkah42 ha1× · 0.0 %
  12. 12Al QaraAl Bahah2 ha1× · 0.0 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1Al MandaqAl Bahah8.4 %2,145 ha · 254 km²
  2. 2HarubJazan1.5 %745 ha · 486 km²
  3. 3BahrahMakkah0.9 %4,156 ha · 4,716 km²
  4. 4Ar RaythJazan0.5 %407 ha · 816 km²
  5. 5AdamMakkah0.5 %809 ha · 1,658 km²
  6. 6AbhaAsir0.2 %1,479 ha · 6,866 km²
  7. 7MaysanMakkah0.2 %801 ha · 4,660 km²
  8. 8Al LithMakkah0.1 %1,260 ha · 9,689 km²
  9. 9TabukTabuk0.0 %1,718 ha · 61,737 km²
  10. 10Makkah Al MukarramahMakkah0.0 %42 ha · 3,870 km²
  11. 11Al TaifMakkah0.0 %256 ha · 43,128 km²
  12. 12Al QaraAl Bahah0.0 %2 ha · 1,099 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.