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Wildfires in Sharbazher

Sharbazher, Iraq, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,078 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 4 Moderate 20° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 16° · 82 % · 38 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 58 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 86 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 13° · 88 % · 38 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 11° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 21 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 28 % · 25 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 Sharbazher: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,078
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
8
fires
2,174
km²

How many times has Sharbazher burned?

Sharbazher has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Sharbazher fire, August 2025, with 1,024 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,078 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,299 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
9,078
cumulative ha
8,299
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 Sharbazher

  1. 1,024 ha Sharbazher fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 820 ha Rania fire, August 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,674 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 983 ha Sharbazher fire, May 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,137 ha Sharbazher fire, September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,177 ha Sharbazher fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,835 ha Sharbazher fire, 2 August 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,824 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 137 ha Rania fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 967 ha Sharbazher fire, June 2017 where it started 0.4% 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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