Wildfires in Lower Shyookh
Lower Shyookh, Syria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,738 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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- Thu 5 Very low 17° · 82 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 17° · 69 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 17° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 14° · 22 % · 44 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 14° · 21 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 14° · 29 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 11 Low 15° · 31 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 15° · 30 % · 18 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 Lower Shyookh: hourly forecast
The municipality and its fires
Since 2016
- 1,738
- hectares burned
- 5.4 %
- of its area
- 3
- fires
- 319
- km²
How many times has Lower Shyookh burned?
Lower Shyookh has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Lower Shyookh fire, May 2024, with 341 hectares inside the municipality.
- 3
- fires
- 2
- years with fire
- 1,738
- cumulative ha
- 18 May 2024
- 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.
Fires that entered Lower Shyookh
- 341 ha Lower Shyookh fire, May 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 346 ha in total · 3 days
- 285 ha Lower Shyookh fire, August 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 284 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,112 ha Lower Shyookh fire, June 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 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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