Wildfires in Tartous
Tartous, Syria: 6 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 27 subdistricts since 2016, burning 3,607 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nasra in October 2020, with 1,845 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 3,607ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.9%
- 1,878 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 27
- Largest fire
- 1,845ha
- Nasra · October 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Low 28° · 47 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 61 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 66 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 74 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 20° · 64 % · 36 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 22° · 58 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 23° · 54 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 20° · 87 % · 24 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Bariqiyeh 1,283 ha · 33 %
- Mashta Elhiu 1,018 ha · 20 %
- Anaza 804 ha · 7.9 %
- Banyas 393 ha · 2.6 %
- Dreikish 109 ha · 1.3 %
What burns in the region
- Mixed forest36 %
- Other natural land28 %
- Coniferous forest25 %
- Agricultural areas8.4 %
- Artificial surfaces3.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Bariqiyeh1,283 ha
- 2×Mashta Elhiu1,018 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,845 haNasraOctober 2020 · 4 days of 2,112 ha in total
- 804 haAnazaOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 393 haBanyasOctober 2020 · 1 day of 430 ha in total
- 276 haMashta ElhiuOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 180 haNasraSeptember 2025 · 4 days of 607 ha in total
- 109 haDreikishOctober 2019 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Tartous · 6
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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