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Wildfires in Dar'a

Dar'a, Syria: 5 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 17 subdistricts since 2016, burning 808 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ghabagheb in May 2017, with 414 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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
808ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.2%
3,846 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 17
Largest fire
414ha
Ghabagheb · May 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 30° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 31° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 31° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 30° · 26 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 69 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 64 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 53 % · 31 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. Ghabagheb 414 ha · 1.2 %
  2. Dar'a 230 ha · 0.7 %
  3. Mseifra 159 ha · 0.9 %
  4. Hrak 4 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas93 %
  • Other natural land6.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
2024160 Dar'a 60 ha
20191170 Dar'a 170 ha
20182164 Mseifra 159 ha
20171414 Ghabagheb 414 ha

All fires in Dar'a · 5

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).