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Wildfires in Hamah
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,150 km² of Hamah at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 492 km², ranking 4th of 15 regions of Syria.
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 2019, with 1,080 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 160 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% lower 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.
May, June and July together hold 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 May 2019, with detections in 60 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,150 km² with at least one detection, 27% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,710 | 54% |
| 2 years | 600 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 605 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 232 | 7.4% |
| 11 years or more | 6.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.25, 36.25 and holds 35% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 160 | 357 |
| 2013 | 694 | 884 |
| 2014 | 260 | 308 |
| 2015 | 770 | 1,021 |
| 2016 | 586 | 761 |
| 2017 | 469 | 659 |
| 2018 | 399 | 593 |
| 2019 | 1,080 | 1,598 |
| 2020 | 746 | 998 |
| 2021 | 382 | 498 |
| 2022 | 205 | 260 |
| 2023 | 381 | 499 |
| 2024 | 557 | 692 |
| 2025 | 202 | 306 |
Other regions of Syria
- Al-Hasakah1,140 km² in an average year
- Aleppo787 km² in an average year
- Al-Raqqah534 km² in an average year
- Homs (Hims)305 km² in an average year
- Idlib263 km² in an average year
- Latakia210 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 regions
- Latakia55 km
- Idlib71 km
- Tartus71 km
- North Lebanon, Lebanon120 km
- Aleppo143 km
- Homs (Hims)147 km