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Wildfires in Homs

Homs, Syria: 36 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 23 subdistricts since 2016, burning 56,760 hectares inside the region. The largest was Jeb Ej-Jarrah in 19 May 2019, with 22,500 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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: 56,760ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 1.3%; 43,340 km²
fires: 36; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 13; of 23
Largest fire: 22,500ha; Jeb Ej-Jarrah · 19 May 2019
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sat 24 High 28° · 29 % · 25 km/h
Sun 25 High 30° · 27 % · 25 km/h
Mon 26 High 30° · 23 % · 26 km/h
Tue 27 High 29° · 27 % · 23 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 22° · 59 % · 32 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 23° · 62 % · 25 km/h
Fri 30 Low 21° · 63 % · 26 km/h
Sat 31 Low 22° · 51 % · 20 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

Jeb Ej-Jarrah 26,033 ha · 11 %
Tadmor 25,487 ha · 1.5 %
Nasra 1,244 ha · 19 %
Al Makhrim 1,165 ha · 2.1 %
Taldu 726 ha · 3.8 %
Homs 726 ha · 1.2 %
Hawash 521 ha · 7.3 %
Tall Kalakh 254 ha · 1.2 %
Al-Qusayr 164 ha · 0.3 %
Hasyaa 163 ha · 0.2 %
Sokhneh 151 ha · 0.0 %
Qabu 81 ha · 1.1 %

What burns in the region

Agricultural areas72 %
Other natural land25 %
Mixed forest2.1 %
Coniferous forest1.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

10×Tadmor25,487 ha
9×Jeb Ej-Jarrah26,033 ha
4×Nasra1,244 ha
4×Taldu726 ha
3×Homs726 ha
3×Shin44 ha
2×Hawash521 ha
2×Tall Kalakh254 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	1	113	Qabu 113 ha
2025	1	428	Nasra 428 ha
2024	7	4,256	Tadmor 2,211 ha
2021	4	1,102	Jeb Ej-Jarrah 669 ha
2020	4	10,739	Tadmor 10,185 ha
2019	17	39,653	Jeb Ej-Jarrah 22,500 ha
2017	2	468	Taldu 319 ha

All fires in Homs · 36

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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