Wildfires in Lorestan
Lorestan, Iran: 15 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 11 counties since 2016, burning 21,641 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pol-e-Dokhtar in September 2020, with 2,613 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).
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
- 21,641ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 28,307 km²
- fires
- 15
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 2,613ha
- Pol-e-Dokhtar · September 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 24° · 26 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 24 High 23° · 20 % · 38 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 23° · 15 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 26 High 23° · 22 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 High 23° · 17 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 28 High 24° · 13 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 18° · 35 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 23° · 28 % · 41 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Pol-e-Dokhtar 13,637 ha · 3.6 %
- Kuhdasht 4,656 ha · 1.3 %
- Delfan 1,209 ha · 0.4 %
- Doreh 1,078 ha · 0.8 %
- Selseleh 842 ha · 0.5 %
- Khoramabad 218 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 9×Pol-e-Dokhtar13,637 ha
- 4×Kuhdasht4,656 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,613 haPol-e-DokhtarSeptember 2020 · 4 days
- 2,152 haPol-e-DokhtarJune 2016 · 4 days
- 1,946 haKuhdashtJune 2019 · 1 day
- 1,655 haPol-e-DokhtarAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,618 haPol-e-DokhtarJune 2025 · 5 days
- 1,434 haKuhdashtJuly 2019 · 3 days
- 1,209 haDelfanSeptember 2025 · 4 days
- 1,201 haDorehSeptember 2025 · 6 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 6,242 | Pol-e-Dokhtar 1,618 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,154 | Kuhdasht 1,154 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,382 | Pol-e-Dokhtar 2,613 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 3,380 | Kuhdasht 1,946 ha |
| 2016 | 4 | 5,483 | Pol-e-Dokhtar 2,152 ha |
All fires in Lorestan · 15
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,155 haPol-e-DokhtarOctober 2025 · 2 days
- 1,209 haDelfanSeptember 2025 · 4 days
- 1,059 haSelselehSeptember 2025 · 4 days
- 1,201 haDorehSeptember 2025 · 6 days
- 1,618 haPol-e-DokhtarJune 2025 · 5 days
- 1,154 haKuhdashtJune 2024 · 1 day
- 2,613 haPol-e-DokhtarSeptember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,655 haPol-e-DokhtarAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,113 haPol-e-DokhtarJuly 2020 · 3 days
- 1,434 haKuhdashtJuly 2019 · 3 days
- 1,946 haKuhdashtJune 2019 · 1 day
- 1,138 haPol-e-Dokhtar13 September 2016 · 4 days
- 1,096 haPol-e-Dokhtar2 September 2016 · 6 days
- 1,098 haPol-e-DokhtarAugust 2016 · 2 days
- 2,152 haPol-e-DokhtarJune 2016 · 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/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).