Wildfires in Iraq
Situation over the last 30 days
710 fires detected in Iraq over the last 30 days, totalling 114,978 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 08:29 AM.
Fires in Iraq follow the farming calendar and the spring drought: stubble burning after harvests, steppe and forest fires from March to June, then a second wave in autumn. Agricultural detections are numerous and often short-lived.
- Ninive (IQ)from October 3 at 11:02 AM to October 15 at 11:13 AM4,721 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from September 22 at 11:09 AM to October 11 at 01:29 AM2,569 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 22 at 11:09 AM to October 6 at 01:22 AM1,965 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 24 at 12:52 AM to October 10 at 12:47 PM1,852 ha
- Gouvernorat d'Hassaké (SY)from September 29 at 12:14 AM to October 3 at 11:58 AM1,651 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 22 at 12:49 PM to October 11 at 01:29 AM1,540 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 29 at 08:14 AM to October 4 at 01:19 PM1,525 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from September 24 at 12:47 PM to October 11 at 12:49 PM1,282 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from September 28 at 12:12 AM to October 7 at 01:08 PM1,093 ha
- Salah ad-Din (IQ)from September 29 at 08:16 AM to October 4 at 01:00 PM993 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 8 at 11:45 AM to October 11 at 01:29 AM987 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from October 3 at 11:02 AM to October 12 at 12:14 AM986 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from October 3 at 12:43 PM to October 10 at 01:49 PM935 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 27 at 11:52 AM to September 30 at 12:56 PM913 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from September 26 at 06:58 PM to October 4 at 01:19 PM873 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 7 at 12:24 PM to October 16 at 12:00 PM860 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 8 at 01:25 PM to October 10 at 01:08 PM771 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 26 at 11:34 AM to September 28 at 02:27 PM697 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from September 29 at 11:34 AM to October 4 at 11:39 AM669 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from October 8 at 11:07 AM to October 18 at 12:17 PM665 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from September 24 at 11:07 AM to September 29 at 01:13 PM645 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 26 at 11:53 PM to September 27 at 12:56 PM624 ha
- Tahrawa (IQ)from September 22 at 11:09 AM to September 22 at 01:55 PM589 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 3 at 11:41 AM to October 4 at 01:02 PM583 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from September 27 at 11:52 AM to October 4 at 01:02 PM575 ha
- Kirkouk (IQ)from October 10 at 01:08 PM to October 14 at 11:52 AM569 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from October 3 at 12:43 PM to October 10 at 01:08 PM562 ha
- Khazna (IQ)from September 22 at 12:04 PM to September 30 at 01:33 AM553 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from September 24 at 01:08 PM to September 30 at 12:00 PM527 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 4 at 11:20 AM to October 4 at 01:19 PM522 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 1 at 07:55 AM to October 4 at 01:02 PM508 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 8 at 12:49 PM to October 13 at 02:06 PM496 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from October 8 at 11:09 AM to October 13 at 02:06 PM494 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from September 26 at 06:56 PM to September 27 at 11:15 AM494 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from October 4 at 07:15 PM to October 10 at 01:08 PM471 ha
- حاجی عەلی کاکۆل (IQ)from September 29 at 08:14 AM to October 1 at 07:55 AM467 ha
- Ninive (IQ)from October 15 at 12:56 PM to October 20 at 01:21 PM459 ha
- Khazna (IQ)from October 4 at 12:20 AM to October 14 at 01:16 AM450 ha
- Erbil (IQ)from October 14 at 11:34 AM to October 19 at 01:19 PM441 ha
- Dahuk (IQ)from September 29 at 01:33 AM to October 4 at 01:02 PM402 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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