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Wildfires in Al-Khalis

Al-Khalis, Iraq, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,192 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 30 High 30° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 31° · 28 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 29° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 27° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 26° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 28° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 24° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 26° · 40 % · 28 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

5,192
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
3
fires
2,958
km²

How many times has Al-Khalis burned?

Al-Khalis has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Al-Khalis fire, June 2019, with 1,481 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,192 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,007 hectares, 1.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
5,192
cumulative ha
5,007
distinct ha

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-Khalis

  1. 1,481 ha Al-Khalis fire, June 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,472 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,847 ha Al-Khalis fire, July 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,864 ha Al-Khalis fire, June 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,938 ha in total · 3 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).

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