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Daquq fire, 15 June 2019 Kirkuk, Daquq

Out · last detection 17 Jun 2019, 10:35 UTC

The fire started on 15 June 2019 in Daquq, Iraq, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,299 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Kirkuk since 2016 (of 28 with a page). Number 2 in Iraq in 2019, of 53.

Burnt area
3,299ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
15 Jun 2019 – 17 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
15 Jun
2019
Heat detections
109
in a single hotspot: 157 MW
Danger at start
55
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
4.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Jun17 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

151617

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

45°high
41km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 27 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 927 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Kirkuk
    1,991 ha
    0.7 %
  2. Daquq where it started
    1,310 ha
    0.5 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
15 Jun 43.1 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
16 Jun 45.3 °C 10 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
17 Jun 42.4 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 69
18 Jun after 41.6 °C 14 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 70
19 Jun after 39.0 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
20 Jun after 40.2 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
21 Jun after 39.5 °C 17 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
22 Jun after 41.9 °C 16 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
23 Jun after 43.5 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
24 Jun after 44.4 °C 9 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
25 Jun after 45.0 °C 9 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
26 Jun after 46.3 °C 9 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
27 Jun after 47.0 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 72

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 8 Jun 2019
After · 24 Jun 2019

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 109Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Daquq fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 15 June 2019 and 17 June 2019: 3 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,299 hectares (33.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kirkuk (1,991 ha, 0.7 %); Daquq (1,310 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 45.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 69, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iraq (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.