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Wildfires in Ras Al Ain

Ras Al Ain, Syria, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 9,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 4 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 69 % · 43 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 72 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 75 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 28 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 12° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 41 % · 23 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 Ras Al Ain: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,261
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
14
fires
2,839
km²

How many times has Ras Al Ain burned?

Ras Al Ain has burned 14 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Ras Al Ain fire, 11 October 2020, with 380 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 12× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
14
fires
2
years with fire
9,261
cumulative ha
11 Oct 2020
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 Ras Al Ain

  1. 28 ha Tal Tamer fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 210 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 23 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 126 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 0 ha Suluk fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 380 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 11 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 379 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 151 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 151 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 156 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 156 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 114 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 235 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 234 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 153 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 714 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 30 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 763 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 30 ha Suluk fire, 30 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 289 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 9 August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 372 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,074 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 2 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 434 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 1 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 432 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,947 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 27 June 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,943 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,503 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 23 June 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,498 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,083 ha Ras Al Ain fire, 18 June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,301 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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