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Wildfires in Panjwin

Panjwin, Iraq, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,655 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 20° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 20° · 31 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 21° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 57 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 58 % · 40 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

5,655
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
8
fires
999
km²

How many times has Panjwin burned?

Panjwin has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Panjwin fire, July 2024, with 1,051 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,655 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,678 hectares, 4.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
6
years with fire
5,655
cumulative ha
4,678
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 Panjwin

  1. 1,051 ha Panjwin fire, July 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,305 ha Panjwin fire, August 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 583 ha Sharbazher fire, May 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 179 ha Sharbazher fire, September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 16 ha Sharbazher fire, 10 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,104 ha Panjwin fire, July 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,157 ha Panjwin fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 260 ha Sharbazher fire, June 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,223 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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