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Wildfires in Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria: 62 fires with a page have entered 25 of its 40 subdistricts since 2016, burning 44,731 hectares inside the region. The largest was Khanaser in 26 May 2019, with 9,974 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
44,731ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.2%
19,950 km²
fires
62
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
25
of 40
Largest fire
9,974ha
Khanaser · 26 May 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Moderate 27° · 31 % · 15 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Moderate 27° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 24 High 27° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 27° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 28° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Low 24° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 62 % · 22 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Khanaser 24,525 ha · 15 %
  2. Sarin 5,920 ha · 2.9 %
  3. Ain al Arab 3,258 ha · 4.4 %
  4. Tall Ed-daman 3,207 ha · 2.8 %
  5. Lower Shyookh 1,738 ha · 5.4 %
  6. Banan 1,266 ha · 9.0 %
  7. Al-Khafsa 1,077 ha · 0.4 %
  8. Jebel Saman 901 ha · 1.4 %
  9. A'zaz 810 ha · 4.5 %
  10. Daret Azza 519 ha · 2.3 %
  11. Tadaf 497 ha · 1.5 %
  12. Raju 426 ha · 1.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas90 %
  • Other natural land8.2 %
  • Coniferous forest0.8 %

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
20263336 Tall Refaat 182 ha
20251118 Raju 118 ha
202471,372 Lower Shyookh 341 ha
202154,897 Khanaser 2,749 ha
20194938,344 Khanaser 9,974 ha

All fires in Aleppo · 65

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/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).