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Wildfires in Rania

Rania, Iraq, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,472 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 High 28° · 24 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 26° · 28 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 27° · 31 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 28° · 28 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 28° · 28 % · 16 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 42 % · 19 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

3,472
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
2
fires
1,379
km²

How many times has Rania burned?

Rania has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Rania fire, August 2021, with 1,812 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,472 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,476 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,472
cumulative ha
2,476
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 Rania

  1. 1,812 ha Rania fire, August 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,674 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,660 ha Rania fire, July 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 4 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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