Wildfires in Ar-Raqqa
Ar-Raqqa, Syria: 22 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 10 subdistricts since 2016, burning 12,927 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ein Issa in 29 June 2019, with 4,206 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).
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
- 12,927ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 17,663 km²
- fires
- 22
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 4,206ha
- Ein Issa · 29 June 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 13 km/h
- Sat 24 High 29° · 28 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 High 29° · 27 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 High 31° · 22 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 High 31° · 25 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 52 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 23° · 59 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 50 % · 22 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas99 %
- Other natural land0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 13×Ein Issa7,998 ha
- 8×Suluk946 ha
- 6×Tell Abiad537 ha
- 3×Ar-Raqqa1,845 ha
- 2×Jurneyyeh1,811 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,206 haEin Issa29 June 2019 · 1 day
- 2,368 haJurneyyehJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 1,371 haEin Issa30 May 2019 · 1 day
- 1,068 haEin IssaMay 2020 · 1 day
- 595 haAr-RaqqaJune 2019 · 1 day
- 435 haEin Issa17 May 2019 · 1 day
- 417 haEin IssaOctober 2019 · 1 day
- 360 haEin Issa13 September 2019 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Ar-Raqqa · 25
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 112 haSulukOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 4 days
- 280 haEin IssaOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 5 days
- 42 haAin al ArabOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 10 days
- 224 haSokhnehSeptember 2020 · 3 days of 383 ha in total
- 1,068 haEin IssaMay 2020 · 1 day
- 417 haEin IssaOctober 2019 · 1 day
- 179 haSulukSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 360 haEin Issa13 September 2019 · 2 days
- 101 haTell AbiadSeptember 2019 · 2 days
- 110 haEin Issa10 September 2019 · 2 days of 152 ha in total
- 129 haSuluk30 August 2019 · 1 day of 158 ha in total
- 154 haSuluk26 August 2019 · 1 day
- 118 haSuluk13 August 2019 · 1 day
- 234 haEin Issa15 July 2019 · 1 day
- 139 haEin Issa8 July 2019 · 1 day
- 2,368 haJurneyyehJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 4,206 haEin Issa29 June 2019 · 1 day
- 204 haTell Abiad28 June 2019 · 1 day
- 10 haSarin28 June 2019 · 1 day of 1,861 ha in total
- 119 haSulukJune 2019 · 1 day
- 595 haAr-RaqqaJune 2019 · 1 day
- 202 haEin Issa1 June 2019 · 1 day
- 184 haTell Abiad1 June 2019 · 1 day
- 1,371 haEin Issa30 May 2019 · 1 day
- 435 haEin Issa17 May 2019 · 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).