Wildfires in Sumail
Sumail, Iraq, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,099 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).
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- Fri 23 Moderate 26° · 31 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 25° · 27 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 24° · 36 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 48 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 52 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 56 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 63 % · 36 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
- 6,099
- hectares burned
- 4.5 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 1,356
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Sumail
- 83 ha Tilkaef fire, 9 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,900 ha in total · 5 days
- 2,242 ha Sumail fire, September 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 12 days
- 904 ha Sumail fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,338 ha Sumail fire, June 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,532 ha Sumail fire, August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,690 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).