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Wildfires in Dohuk

Dohuk, Iraq: 40 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 57,557 hectares inside the region. The largest was Al-Amadiya in 24 August 2021, with 4,521 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
57,557ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.1%
6,357 km²
fires
40
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
4,521ha
Al-Amadiya · 24 August 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Low 23° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 23° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 22° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 46 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 83 % · 31 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 82 % · 44 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Al-Amadiya 38,124 ha · 13 %
  2. Duhok 7,352 ha · 7.1 %
  3. Sumail 6,099 ha · 4.5 %
  4. Zakho 5,981 ha · 4.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202633,447 Sumail 2,242 ha
202521,609 Aqra 923 ha
20211219,184 Al-Amadiya 4,521 ha
2020912,599 Duhok 2,417 ha
201956,316 Al-Shikhan 1,973 ha
201723,322 Sumail 1,696 ha
2016711,080 Zakho 2,898 ha

All fires in Dohuk · 40

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).