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Wildfires in Karun

Karun, Iran, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2018: 582 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very extreme 38° · 14 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 8 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 16 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 18 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 32° · 30 % · 18 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

582
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
1
fires
1,200
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Karun

  1. 582 ha Karun fire, October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 20 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).