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Wildfires in Makhmour

Makhmour, Iraq, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,253 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 13 Low 17° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 18° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 19° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 19° · 56 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 19° · 54 % · 13 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 20° · 56 % · 15 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 21° · 45 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 20° · 53 % · 54 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Makhmour: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,253
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
3
fires
2,610
km²

How many times has Makhmour burned?

Makhmour has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026, with 1,057 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
3,253
cumulative ha
4 Aug 2026
most recent

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 Makhmour

  1. 1,057 ha Al-Hamdaniya fire, August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 0 ha Dibis fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,196 ha Makhmour fire, June 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,189 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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