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Wildfires in Kirkuk

Kirkuk, Iraq: 30 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 43,904 hectares inside the region. The largest was Daquq in 15 June 2019, with 3,301 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
43,904ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.1%
10,690 km²
fires
30
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
3,301ha
Daquq · 15 June 2019
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very high 33° · 21 % · 37 km/h
  2. Fri 23 High 31° · 23 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 24 High 29° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 30° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 31° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 32° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 32° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 32° · 35 % · 32 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Daquq 22,654 ha · 8.5 %
  2. Dibis 8,882 ha · 5.1 %
  3. Al-Hawiga 7,196 ha · 2.5 %
  4. Kirkuk 5,171 ha · 1.8 %

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
202658,747 Daquq 2,611 ha
202422,498 Dibis 1,390 ha
202043,924 Daquq 1,413 ha
20191321,180 Daquq 3,301 ha
201722,793 Al-Hawiga 1,496 ha
201644,762 Daquq 1,411 ha

All fires in Kirkuk · 30

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).