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Wildfires in Ain al Arab

Ain al Arab, Syria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 3,174 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Low 19° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 19° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 19° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 17° · 74 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 17° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 19° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 20° · 63 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 20° · 62 % · 23 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 Ain al Arab: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,174
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
7
fires
747
km²

How many times has Ain al Arab burned?

Ain al Arab has burned 7 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Ain al Arab fire, August 2019, with 138 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
1
years with fire
3,174
cumulative ha
20 Aug 2019
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 Syria

Fires that entered Ain al Arab

  1. 84 ha Ain al Arab fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 138 ha Ain al Arab fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 0 ha Sarin fire, 9 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 247 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 749 ha Ain al Arab fire, July 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 773 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 31 ha Lower Shyookh fire, June 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 785 ha Sarin fire, 25 June 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,281 ha Ain al Arab fire, 20 June 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 189 ha Ain al Arab fire, 20 June 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/United Nations Cartographic Section (UNCS) and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), OCHA ROSC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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