Wildfires in Diyala
Diyala, Iraq: 18 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 26,742 hectares inside the region. The largest was Baladruz in July 2019, with 4,173 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).
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
- 26,742ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 19,986 km²
- fires
- 18
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 4,173ha
- Baladruz · July 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very high 30° · 18 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 32° · 17 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 33° · 19 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Very high 33° · 19 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 33° · 19 % · 15 km/h
- Thu 29 High 30° · 34 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 29° · 39 % · 37 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 27° · 57 % · 38 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 4,173 haBaladruzJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 2,547 haKhanaqin1 July 2016 · 4 days
- 1,920 haKhanaqinJune 2020 · 3 days
- 1,864 haAl-KhalisJune 2016 · 2 days
- 1,847 haAl-KhalisJuly 2016 · 1 day
- 1,760 haKhanaqin10 July 2016 · 1 day
- 1,579 haBaladruzAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 1,494 haKhanaqinJuly 2018 · 3 days of 1,967 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Diyala · 18
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,920 haKhanaqinJune 2020 · 3 days
- 856 haKhanaqinMay 2020 · 2 days of 1,022 ha in total
- 377 haBaladruzMay 2020 · 2 days of 1,136 ha in total
- 1,579 haBaladruzAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 4,173 haBaladruzJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 1,004 haBaqubaJuly 2019 · 2 days
- 165 haTooz Khurmato25 June 2019 · 1 day of 3,420 ha in total
- 1,481 haAl-KhalisJune 2019 · 2 days
- 621 haKhanaqinJune 2019 · 1 day of 1,053 ha in total
- 1,240 haKhanaqinMay 2019 · 2 days
- 1,280 haBaladruzMay 2019 · 2 days
- 1,331 haKifriMay 2019 · 1 day
- 1,494 haKhanaqinJuly 2018 · 3 days of 1,967 ha in total
- 1,760 haKhanaqin10 July 2016 · 1 day
- 1,847 haAl-KhalisJuly 2016 · 1 day
- 2,547 haKhanaqin1 July 2016 · 4 days
- 1,864 haAl-KhalisJune 2016 · 2 days
- 1,202 haKhanaqinMay 2016 · 2 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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