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Wildfires in Al-Shamiya

Al-Shamiya, Iraq, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,408 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Tue 3 High 30° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 29° · 59 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 26° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Moderate 29° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 27° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 22° · 15 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 20° · 26 % · 30 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

1,408
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
952
km²

How many times has Al-Shamiya burned?

Al-Shamiya has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Al-Manathera fire, May 2021, with 10 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,408
cumulative ha
16 May 2021
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-Shamiya

  1. 10 ha Al-Manathera fire, May 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,398 ha Al-Shamiya fire, May 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,398 ha in total · 15 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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