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Wildfires in Khuzestan

Khuzestan, Iran: 27 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 27 counties since 2016, burning 36,978 hectares inside the region. The largest was Hendijan in October 2017, with 2,227 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned: 36,978ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 0.6%; 63,534 km²
fires: 27; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 17; of 27
Largest fire: 2,227ha; Hendijan · October 2017
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Tue 27 Very high 34° · 19 % · 25 km/h
Wed 28 Very high 34° · 20 % · 20 km/h
Thu 29 Very high 32° · 24 % · 33 km/h
Fri 30 High 34° · 25 % · 12 km/h
Sat 31 Extreme 34° · 24 % · 42 km/h
Sun 1 High 33° · 24 % · 31 km/h
Mon 2 High 32° · 26 % · 33 km/h
Tue 3 Very high 33° · 24 % · 51 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Andimeshk 6,038 ha · 1.9 %
Khoramshahr 5,297 ha · 2.6 %
Dasht-e-Azadegan 3,974 ha · 2.0 %
Shush 3,328 ha · 0.9 %
Behbahan 2,940 ha · 1.0 %
Dezful 2,458 ha · 0.5 %
Hoveyzeh 2,264 ha · 0.8 %
Hendijan 2,227 ha · 0.9 %
Hamidieh 1,284 ha · 1.7 %
Andika 1,251 ha · 0.5 %
Shushtar 1,220 ha · 0.5 %
Ahvaz 1,188 ha · 0.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

5×Shush3,328 ha
4×Andimeshk6,038 ha
4×Khoramshahr5,297 ha
4×Dasht-e-Azadegan3,974 ha
4×Hoveyzeh2,264 ha
2×Behbahan2,940 ha
2×Dezful2,458 ha
2×Hamidieh1,284 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	4	5,140	Shush 1,542 ha
2025	5	6,805	Omidieh 2,011 ha
2023	1	1,756	Hoveyzeh 1,756 ha
2021	1	1,695	Khoramshahr 1,695 ha
2020	5	7,120	Behbahan 1,865 ha
2019	2	2,523	Andimeshk 1,494 ha
2018	3	3,525	Dasht-e-Azadegan 1,318 ha
2017	5	7,148	Hendijan 2,227 ha
2016	1	1,268	Khoramshahr 1,268 ha

All fires in Khuzestan · 27

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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