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Wildfires in Heish

Heish, Syria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 281 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 High 29° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 28° · 28 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 28° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 26° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 23° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 61 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 49 % · 37 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

281
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
184
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Heish

  1. 112 ha Heish fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 169 ha Heish fire, June 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 237 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).