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Wildfires in Al-Mosul

Al-Mosul, Iraq, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 21,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Sat 31 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 27° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 77 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 73 % · 41 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

21,001
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
16
fires
4,727
km²

How many times has Al-Mosul burned?

Al-Mosul has burned 16 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026, with 44 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,001 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,268 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 12× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
16
fires
2
years with fire
21,001
cumulative ha
20,268
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-Mosul

  1. 44 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,469 ha Al-Mosul fire, 21 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,445 ha Al-Mosul fire, 21 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,440 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 128 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,279 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 660 ha Telafar fire, September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,303 ha Al-Mosul fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,028 ha Al-Mosul fire, 27 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,738 ha Al-Mosul fire, 25 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,927 ha Al-Mosul fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,920 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,574 ha Al-Mosul fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,569 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 941 ha Al-Mosul fire, 1 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2,080 ha Al-Mosul fire, 27 June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 408 ha Tilkaef fire, 26 June 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,354 ha Al-Mosul fire, 17 June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 2,098 ha Al-Mosul fire, 14 June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,803 ha Al-Mosul fire, 12 June 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,809 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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