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Wildfires in Sinjar

Sinjar, Iraq, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,243 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 26° · 24 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 26° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 26° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 27° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 28° · 29 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 84 % · 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

2,243
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
2
fires
2,891
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sinjar

  1. 2,237 ha Sinjar fire, July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 6 ha Telafar fire, July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 1 day

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).