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Wildfires in Liban-Sud

Liban-Sud, Lebanon: 11 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 districts since 2016, burning 1,276 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sour in October 2024, with 254 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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

hectares burned
1,276ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.4%
938 km²
fires
11
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 3
Largest fire
254ha
Sour · October 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 25° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 27° · 41 % · 46 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 24° · 53 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 56 % · 39 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 86 % · 36 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sour 938 ha · 2.3 %
  2. Jezzine 338 ha · 1.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land61 %
  • Mixed forest21 %
  • Coniferous forest12 %
  • Agricultural areas5.5 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20262108 Jezzine 108 ha
20252306 Sour 200 ha
20243378 Sour 254 ha
20232378 Sour 195 ha
20201101 Sour 101 ha
201914 Bent Jbail 4 ha

All fires in Liban-Sud · 11

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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