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Wildfires in Mont-Liban

Mont-Liban, Lebanon: 9 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 2,566 hectares inside the region. The largest was Aley in October 2019, with 1,096 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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
2,566ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.1%
1,205 km²
fires
9
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 4
Largest fire
1,096ha
Aley · October 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Low 20° · 36 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 20° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 16° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 16° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 16° · 52 % · 65 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Low 17° · 59 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 21° · 60 % · 23 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Chouf 1,730 ha · 3.6 %
  2. Aley 513 ha · 1.9 %
  3. Baabda 324 ha · 1.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land47 %
  • Mixed forest22 %
  • Coniferous forest20 %
  • Artificial surfaces10 %
  • Agricultural areas1.5 %

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
20251153 Chouf 153 ha
20242408 Chouf 225 ha
20231174 Chouf 174 ha
20203468 Baabda 184 ha
201921,363 Aley 1,096 ha

All fires in Mont-Liban · 9

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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