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Wildfires in Afaq

Afaq, Iraq, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 4,168 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 high 35° · 22 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 19 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 15 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 19 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 19 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 48 % · 33 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

4,168
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
3,891
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Afaq

  1. 1,028 ha Afaq fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,139 ha Afaq fire, August 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,125 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Iraq Central Statistics Office, OCHA Iraq (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).