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Wildfires in Kirkuk

Kirkuk, Iraq, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,171 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Thu 22 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 49 km/h
  2. Fri 23 High 28° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 24 High 27° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 28° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 29° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 29° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 15 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 28° · 43 % · 41 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

5,171
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
6
fires
2,917
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kirkuk

  1. 1,108 ha Kirkuk fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 82 ha Chamchamal fire, June 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,581 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,991 ha Daquq fire, 15 June 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 3,299 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 121 ha Al-Hawiga fire, May 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,238 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 802 ha Daquq fire, May 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,410 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,068 ha Kirkuk fire, May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,066 ha in total · 54 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).