Wildfires in Erbil
Erbil, Iraq: 14 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 16,130 hectares inside the region. The largest was Makhmour in June 2019, with 2,196 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).
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
- 16,130ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.2%
- 13,611 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 2,196ha
- Makhmour · June 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 24° · 27 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 High 24° · 27 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 High 25° · 32 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 27 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 High 24° · 27 % · 45 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 48 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 17° · 80 % · 39 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 2,196 haMakhmourJune 2019 · 3 days
- 2,112 haShaqlawaJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 1,376 haAl-ZibarSeptember 2021 · 6 days of 1,470 ha in total
- 1,325 haAl-ZibarJune 2017 · 1 day
- 1,308 haAl-ZibarSeptember 2020 · 5 days
- 1,190 haAl-ZibarAugust 2018 · 3 days
- 1,178 haKoysinjaqSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 1,087 haAl-ZibarAugust 2023 · 5 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 | 1,057 | Al-Hamdaniya 1,057 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 377 | Al-Amadiya 377 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,087 | Al-Zibar 1,087 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 2,295 | Al-Zibar 1,376 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 3,312 | Al-Zibar 1,308 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,196 | Makhmour 2,196 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,190 | Al-Zibar 1,190 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,325 | Al-Zibar 1,325 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 3,290 | Shaqlawa 2,112 ha |
All fires in Erbil · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,057 haAl-HamdaniyaAugust 2026 · 3 days of 2,334 ha in total
- 0 haDibisJune 2026 · 1 day of 2,243 ha in total
- 377 haAl-AmadiyaAugust 2025 · 4 days of 1,062 ha in total
- 1,087 haAl-ZibarAugust 2023 · 5 days
- 1,376 haAl-ZibarSeptember 2021 · 6 days of 1,470 ha in total
- 919 haAl-Amadiya27 August 2021 · 3 days of 1,264 ha in total
- 986 haAl-ZibarOctober 2020 · 3 days of 1,267 ha in total
- 1,308 haAl-ZibarSeptember 2020 · 5 days
- 1,017 haAl-ZibarAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 2,196 haMakhmourJune 2019 · 3 days
- 1,190 haAl-ZibarAugust 2018 · 3 days
- 1,325 haAl-ZibarJune 2017 · 1 day
- 1,178 haKoysinjaqSeptember 2016 · 3 days
- 2,112 haShaqlawaJuly 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).