What actually burned in the coastal wildfires, and where?

Burned-area boundaries and severity for the October 2020 fires (14,164 ha) and the July 2025 fires in rural Latakia (10,454 ha), computed from before-and-after images at 20 m, with burned area per sub-district and nearest village, plus 13,361 fire detections 2020–2024 in the western governorates.

In short

July 2025: 10,454 ha burned, 3,164 at high severity.

October 2020: 14,164 ha burned, 3,153 at high severity.

Most-burned sub-districts and villages are in the tables.

Syrian coast wildfire maps 2020 and 2025: burned areas and severity per sub-district and village — Reduced-resolution preview with a watermark; the full-resolution map is in the package.

Who it is for

Agriculture and forestry faculties and directorates, reforestation and rehabilitation organisations, municipalities and journalists.

Method: what we add to the raw data

Sentinel-2 images before and after each event were collected; the normalised burn ratio (NBR) was computed from near- and short-wave infrared with cloud and shadow masked, taking the median per period.
The difference (dNBR) measures burn severity: 0.27–0.44 moderate-low, 0.44–0.66 moderate-high, above 0.66 high.
Only trees, shrubland and grassland were kept, because harvesting fields also changes the index and looks like fire.
Patches under one hectare were removed, and each patch linked to its sub-district and nearest village.
Daily fire detections for 2020–2024 in the western governorates were added, excluding gas flares.

Product details

What you get	3 spatial layers in GeoPackage, 4 GeoTIFF rasters, 4 CSV tables, lyrx and qml symbology for ArcGIS Pro and QGIS, a PNG map at 220 dpi, and an Arabic and English guide
Formats	GPKG, GeoTIFF, CSV, lyrx, qml, PNG
Coordinate system	WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); engineering rasters in UTM 37N (EPSG:32637)
Licence	Commercial use allowed for you and the organisation you buy for; no resale or redistribution
Delivery	A private download link valid for 24 hours, within 6 hours of payment confirmation
Package size	ZIP 55.4 MB
Personal data	The product contains no personal data

Spatial layers

burned_areas — polygons, 49,476: Burned areas by severity
subdistricts_burned — polygons, 55: Sub-districts with burned area per event
fire_hotspots_2020_2024 — points, 13,361: Fire detections

Raster files (GeoTIFF)

D081_dnbr_2020_10.tif — 3,628 × 7,587, 20 m: dNBR — October 2020 fires
D081_dnbr_2025_07.tif — 2,928 × 2,693, 20 m: dNBR — July 2025 fires
D081_severity_2020_10.tif — 3,628 × 7,587, 20 m: Severity classes — October 2020 fires
D081_severity_2025_07.tif — 2,928 × 2,693, 20 m: Severity classes — July 2025 fires

Tables

D081_burned_by_subdistrict.csv — 55 rows: Burned per sub-district
D081_burned_by_village.csv — 360 rows: Burned per village
D081_hotspots_by_subdistrict_year.csv — 116 rows: Hotspots per sub-district and year
D081_events_summary.csv — 2 rows: Event summary

Limitations

The 0.27 threshold is conservative: light burning (0.1–0.27) is outside the computed areas but visible in the dNBR cells.
Fires in fields and orchards are excluded because the analysis is limited to natural cover.
Fire detections for 2025 are not yet published in the annual files, so points run to 2024.

FAQ

How long does delivery take?: Up to 6 hours after payment is confirmed.
How long does the download link last?: 24 hours, and it is renewed free on request.
Can I get a refund?: Digital products are not refundable once downloaded — unless the file is defective or does not match the description, in which case it is replaced or fully refunded.
What does the licence allow?: Commercial use is allowed for you and the organisation you buy for; resale or redistribution is not.

Syrian coast wildfire maps 2020 and 2025: burned areas and severity per sub-district and village