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Wildfires in Iraq

174 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 270,613 hectares burned across 46 districts.

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Iraq, at this point in the year: 113,135 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 318,251.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025384,197 ha

Worst year2019 778,779 ha

With a page here174 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	527	113,345	GWIS
2025	756	211,318	GWIS
2024	1,063	262,764	GWIS
2023	1,015	255,105	GWIS
2022	1,329	302,593	GWIS
2021	1,752	404,896	GWIS
2020	2,231	558,450	GWIS
2019	2,919	778,779	GWIS
2018	1,434	354,005	GWIS
2017	1,237	272,534	GWIS
2016	1,743	441,524	GWIS
2015	1,644	488,802	GWIS
2014	1,317	290,316	GWIS
2013	927	198,679	GWIS
2012	930	210,709	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.