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Wildfires in Hawash

Hawash, Syria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 521 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 56 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 67 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 67 % · 32 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

521
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
2
fires
72
km²

How many times has Hawash burned?

Hawash has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Hawash fire, October 2024, with 420 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 521 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 429 hectares, 6.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
521
cumulative ha
429
distinct ha

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 Hawash

  1. 420 ha Hawash fire, October 2024 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 431 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 101 ha Hawash fire, July 2019 where it started 1.4% 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/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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