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Wildfires in Duhok

Duhok, Iraq, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,352 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% 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. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 29 % · 18 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 58 % · 34 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

7,352
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
6
fires
1,039
km²

How many times has Duhok burned?

Duhok has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Duhok fire, October 2020, with 1,035 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,352 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,935 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
7,352
cumulative ha
5,935
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 Duhok

  1. 1,035 ha Duhok fire, October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,417 ha Duhok fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,411 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,013 ha Duhok fire, 18 July 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 170 ha Sumail fire, June 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 163 ha Sumail fire, August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,553 ha Duhok fire, July 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,549 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).

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