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Wildfires in As-Saan

As-Saan, Syria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 32,144 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 26 High 29° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 20° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 74 % · 40 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 60 % · 26 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

32,144
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
7
fires
1,947
km²

How many times has As-Saan burned?

As-Saan has burned 7 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Oqeirbat fire, July 2021, with 2 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
2
years with fire
32,144
cumulative ha
7 Jul 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 Syria →

Fires that entered As-Saan

  1. 2 ha Oqeirbat fire, July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 895 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,984 ha As-Saan fire, May 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,980 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,851 ha As-Saan fire, August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,033 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,988 ha As-Saan fire, June 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,063 ha As-Saan fire, 23 May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,462 ha As-Saan fire, 16 May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 20,795 ha As-Saan fire, 15 May 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 23,331 ha in total · 8 days

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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