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Wildfires in Lebanon
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,100 km² of Lebanon at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 389 km², ranking 143rd of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2024, with 735 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 225 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 September 2024, with detections in 74 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,100 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,830 | 59% |
| 2 years | 722 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 500 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 43 | 1.4% |
| 11 years or more | 9.2 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 34.25, 35.75 and holds 24% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 305 | 546 |
| 2013 | 489 | 765 |
| 2014 | 243 | 510 |
| 2015 | 330 | 562 |
| 2016 | 464 | 737 |
| 2017 | 267 | 465 |
| 2018 | 225 | 443 |
| 2019 | 395 | 487 |
| 2020 | 457 | 550 |
| 2021 | 526 | 692 |
| 2022 | 267 | 357 |
| 2023 | 336 | 483 |
| 2024 | 735 | 950 |
| 2025 | 408 | 458 |
Nearby countries
- India324,930 km² in an average year
- Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
- China182,410 km² in an average year
- Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
- Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
- Lao PDR73,670 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
- Northern Cyprus213 km
- Palestine227 km
- Jordan227 km
- Cyprus235 km
- Cyprus U.N. Buffer Zone254 km
- Israel293 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
