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Wildfires in Telafar

Telafar, Iraq, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,514 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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 27° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 27° · 20 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 27° · 29 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 28° · 29 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 29° · 28 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 70 % · 33 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

11,514
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
9
fires
4,756
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Telafar

  1. 933 ha Telafar fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,310 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 912 ha Telafar fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,516 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,108 ha Telafar fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,468 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,083 ha Telafar fire, 28 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,276 ha Telafar fire, May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 799 ha Telafar fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,184 ha Telafar fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 108 ha Al-Mosul fire, 1 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,110 ha Telafar fire, June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,130 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).