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Wildfires in Hama

Hama, Syria: 43 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 22 subdistricts since 2016, burning 63,042 hectares inside the region. The largest was As-Saan in 15 May 2019, with 20,795 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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
63,042ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.7%
11,109 km²
fires
43
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 22
Largest fire
20,795ha
As-Saan · 15 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. Fri 23 High 30° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 30° · 25 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 28° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 29° · 29 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 28° · 31 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 22° · 40 % · 41 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. As-Saan 32,144 ha · 17 %
  2. Madiq Castle 5,250 ha · 18 %
  3. Hamra 5,217 ha · 5.8 %
  4. Shat-ha 4,937 ha · 26 %
  5. As-Suqaylabiyah 3,677 ha · 16 %
  6. Oqeirbat 3,324 ha · 1.2 %
  7. Tell Salhib 2,109 ha · 10 %
  8. Ziyara 1,361 ha · 6.5 %
  9. Suran 1,333 ha · 2.8 %
  10. Masyaf 1,317 ha · 3.2 %
  11. Harbanifse 1,013 ha · 3.3 %
  12. Jeb Ramleh 448 ha · 2.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas71 %
  • Other natural land12 %
  • Coniferous forest8.4 %
  • Mixed forest6.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.0 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.7 %

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
20261166 Madiq Castle 166 ha
202566,564 Beit Yashout 4,063 ha
2024123,861 Oqeirbat 1,083 ha
20232620 Tell Salhib 425 ha
202211 Kansaba 1 ha
202146,825 Madiq Castle 2,199 ha
202033,976 Salanfa 3,105 ha
20191039,119 As-Saan 20,795 ha
201721,058 Harbanifse 688 ha
20162854 As-Suqaylabiyah 651 ha

All fires in Hama · 43

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).