Wildfires in Babil
Babil, Iraq: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 1,245 hectares inside the region. The largest was Al-Mussyab in September 2017, with 1,245 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 38).
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
- 1,245ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 7,972 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,245ha
- Al-Mussyab · September 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 32° · 26 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 24 High 33° · 17 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 34° · 14 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 35° · 16 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 High 35° · 16 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 35° · 21 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 49 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 27° · 53 % · 41 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Al-Mussyab 1,245 ha · 1.2 %
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1,245 | Al-Mussyab 1,245 ha |
All fires in Babil · 1
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).