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Wildfires in Ar-Raqqa

Ar-Raqqa, Syria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,845 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 29° · 28 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 29° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 22 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 50 % · 22 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

1,845
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
3
fires
2,897
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Ar-Raqqa

  1. 733 ha Jurneyyeh fire, July 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,367 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 419 ha Ar-Raqqa fire, June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 594 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 693 ha Ein Issa fire, 30 May 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,367 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).