Wildfires in Al-Basrah
Al-Basrah, Iraq: 0 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 0 hectares inside the region. The largest was Al-Zubair in October 2026, with 1,694 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.
- hectares burned
- 0ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 18,134 km²
- fires
- 0
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,694ha
- Al-Zubair · October 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 High 35° · 16 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 27 High 33° · 27 % · 17 km/h
- Wed 28 High 34° · 26 % · 15 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 35° · 26 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 33° · 33 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 33° · 51 % · 62 km/h
- Sun 1 High 32° · 32 % · 57 km/h
- Mon 2 Very high 33° · 27 % · 42 km/h
Burning now in the region
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The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Al-Zubair2,128 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,694 haAl-ZubairOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 11 days
- 1,288 haAl-Zubair October 2026 · provisional · not counted · 10 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2,982 | Al-Zubair 1,694 ha |
All fires in Al-Basrah · 2
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/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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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