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Wildfires in Lattakia

Lattakia, Syria: 42 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 22 subdistricts since 2016, burning 56,418 hectares inside the region. The largest was Qastal Maaf in July 2025, with 13,520 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
56,418ha
Since 2016
Of the region
24%
2,394 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 22
Largest fire
13,520ha
Qastal Maaf · July 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 28° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 26° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 27° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 79 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 70 % · 25 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Rabee'a 17,056 ha · 80 %
  2. Qastal Maaf 15,888 ha · 64 %
  3. Kasab 5,489 ha · 55 %
  4. Fakhura 4,682 ha · 67 %
  5. Kansaba 3,549 ha · 21 %
  6. Al-Qardaha 2,344 ha · 14 %
  7. Jobet Berghal 1,622 ha · 25 %
  8. Al-Haffa 1,526 ha · 13 %
  9. Ein El-Bayda 1,130 ha · 8.4 %
  10. Ein Et-teeneh 824 ha · 15 %
  11. Mzair'a 705 ha · 7.7 %
  12. Harf Elmseitra 458 ha · 8.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest41 %
  • Mixed forest29 %
  • Other natural land20 %
  • Agricultural areas6.9 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.2 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.9 %

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
2025919,721 Qastal Maaf 13,520 ha
202441,772 Kasab 1,412 ha
202369,992 Rabee'a 4,839 ha
20221172 Kansaba 172 ha
20213659 Rabee'a 444 ha
20201322,524 Fakhura 5,950 ha
201921,021 Jobet Berghal 725 ha
20172222 Rabee'a 117 ha
20162334 Fakhura 208 ha

All fires in Lattakia · 42

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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