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Wildfires in Aqra

Aqra, Iraq, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,509 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 27 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 40 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 29 % · 42 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 22° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 20° · 54 % · 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

11,509
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
11
fires
2,967
km²

How many times has Aqra burned?

Aqra has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Aqra fire, September 2025, with 1,010 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,509 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,377 hectares, 3.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
11,509
cumulative ha
9,377
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 Aqra

  1. 1,010 ha Aqra fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,174 ha Aqra fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 500 ha Aqra fire, July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,069 ha Aqra fire, September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,220 ha Al-Amadiya fire, 24 August 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 3,718 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,364 ha Aqra fire, July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,357 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,233 ha Aqra fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,016 ha Aqra fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 321 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,442 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,329 ha Aqra fire, August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,273 ha Aqra fire, September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 8 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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