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IQ · Iraq · Salah al-Din

Wildfires in Samarra

Samarra, Iraq, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 860 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

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 32° · 20 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 30° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 21 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 18 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 55 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 59 % · 28 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

860
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
1
fires
5,507
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Samarra

  1. 860 ha Al-Daur fire, May 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 3,046 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).