Wildfires in Dhi Qar
Dhi Qar, Iraq: 10 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 5 districts since 2016, burning 11,301 hectares inside the region. The largest was Suq Al-Shoyokh in 1 September 2018, with 1,376 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).
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
- 11,301ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 14,323 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 1,376ha
- Suq Al-Shoyokh · 1 September 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 13 Extreme 23° · 17 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 14 Extreme 25° · 27 % · 42 km/h
- Sun 15 Very high 26° · 23 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 16 Very high 28° · 23 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 17 High 28° · 21 % · 16 km/h
- Wed 18 Very high 29° · 18 % · 18 km/h
- Thu 19 Moderate 27° · 34 % · 53 km/h
- Fri 20 Moderate 28° · 27 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Al-Chibayish 9,185 ha · 3.9 %
- Suq Al-Shoyokh 2,116 ha · 1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 9×Al-Chibayish9,185 ha
- 3×Suq Al-Shoyokh2,116 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,376 haSuq Al-Shoyokh1 September 2018 · 2 days
- 1,373 haAl-ChibayishMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 1,299 haSuq Al-Shoyokh23 September 2018 · 13 days
- 1,256 haAl-Chibayish10 August 2022 · 1 day
- 1,193 haAl-ChibayishJune 2022 · 4 days
- 1,102 haAl-ChibayishSeptember 2023 · 5 days
- 1,089 haAl-Chibayish9 August 2022 · 4 days
- 1,081 haSuq Al-ShoyokhJanuary 2016 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1,102 | Al-Chibayish 1,102 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,911 | Al-Chibayish 1,373 ha |
| 2018 | 3 | 3,726 | Suq Al-Shoyokh 1,376 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 1,561 | Suq Al-Shoyokh 1,081 ha |
All fires in Dhi Qar · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,102 haAl-ChibayishSeptember 2023 · 5 days
- 1,256 haAl-Chibayish10 August 2022 · 1 day
- 1,089 haAl-Chibayish9 August 2022 · 4 days
- 1,193 haAl-ChibayishJune 2022 · 4 days
- 1,373 haAl-ChibayishMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 1,299 haSuq Al-Shoyokh23 September 2018 · 13 days
- 1,376 haSuq Al-Shoyokh1 September 2018 · 2 days
- 1,051 haAl-ChibayishJuly 2018 · 5 days
- 481 haAl-Mejar Al-KabirApril 2016 · 1 day
- 1,081 haSuq Al-ShoyokhJanuary 2016 · 8 days
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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