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Wildfires in Baquba

Baquba, Iraq, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,004 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 23 Very high 33° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 31° · 17 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 32° · 17 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 20 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 17 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 16 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 43 % · 25 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

1,004
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
1
fires
1,826
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Baquba

  1. 1,004 ha Baquba fire, July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 2 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).