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Wildfires in Halabcha

Halabcha, Iraq, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,505 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 High 27° · 25 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 25° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 24° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 25° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 26° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 24° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 58 % · 29 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

7,505
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
7
fires
1,453
km²

How many times has Halabcha burned?

Halabcha has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Halabcha fire, 29 July 2020, with 1,386 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,505 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,251 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
7,505
cumulative ha
7,251
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 Halabcha

  1. 1,386 ha Halabcha fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,135 ha Halabcha fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,189 ha Halabcha fire, June 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 90 ha Khanaqin fire, July 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,327 ha Halabcha fire, August 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,149 ha Halabcha fire, 21 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,228 ha Halabcha fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,227 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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