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Wildfires in Al-Hamdaniya

Al-Hamdaniya, Iraq, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 10,870 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 8 Very low 19° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 31 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 17° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 18° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 20° · 45 % · 19 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Al-Hamdaniya: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,870
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
9
fires
1,305
km²

How many times has Al-Hamdaniya burned?

Al-Hamdaniya has burned 9 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026, with 1,237 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
9
fires
3
years with fire
10,870
cumulative ha
4 Aug 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Iraq

Fires that entered Al-Hamdaniya

  1. 1,237 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,138 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,060 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, 7 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,157 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, June 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,279 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,634 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, June 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,628 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,125 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, September 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,442 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,203 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, 23 July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,156 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, 23 July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,161 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, June 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 1 day

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).

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