Wildfires in As-Sweida
As-Sweida, Syria: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 12 subdistricts since 2016, burning 241 hectares inside the region. The largest was Salkhad in August 2019, with 108 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).
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
- 241ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 6,375 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 108ha
- Salkhad · August 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 High 29° · 26 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 30° · 23 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 29° · 24 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 27 High 29° · 28 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 62 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 22° · 61 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 53 % · 38 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas90 %
- Other natural land10 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×As-Sweida133 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 108 haSalkhadAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 97 haAs-SweidaJune 2018 · 1 day
- 36 haMseifraJune 2018 · 1 day of 194 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in As-Sweida · 3
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).
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