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Wildfires in Zakho

Zakho, Iraq, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,981 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% 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. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 23° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 21° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 75 % · 23 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

5,981
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
6
fires
1,385
km²

How many times has Zakho burned?

Zakho has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Sumail fire, August 2026, with 218 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,981 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,430 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
5,981
cumulative ha
5,430
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 Zakho

  1. 218 ha Sumail fire, August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,255 ha Zakho fire, June 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 0 ha Sumail fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 507 ha Al-Amadiya fire, September 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,555 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,898 ha Zakho fire, August 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 1,104 ha Zakho fire, July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 10 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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