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Wildfires in Salanfa

Salanfa, Syria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 353 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 Very low 26° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 25° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 24° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 25° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 23° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 79 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 68 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 73 % · 34 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

353
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
2
fires
140
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Salanfa

  1. 1 ha Kansaba fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 352 ha Salanfa fire, July 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,654 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).