Wildfires in Maysan
Maysan, Iraq: 30 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 80,242 hectares inside the region. The largest was Al-Kahla in June 2018, with 13,288 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).
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
- 80,242ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.6%
- 17,444 km²
- fires
- 30
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 13,288ha
- Al-Kahla · June 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very high 35° · 18 % · 20 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 33° · 21 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 32° · 36 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 47 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 1 High 30° · 38 % · 47 km/h
- Mon 2 High 31° · 33 % · 40 km/h
- Tue 3 High 31° · 36 % · 22 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Al-Kahla 71,104 ha · 19 %
- Al-Mejar Al-Kabir 9,138 ha · 4.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 28×Al-Kahla71,104 ha
- 8×Al-Mejar Al-Kabir9,138 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 13,288 haAl-KahlaJune 2018 · 69 days
- 8,997 haAl-KahlaMay 2022 · 35 days
- 5,942 haAl-KahlaSeptember 2018 · 33 days
- 5,838 haAl-Kahla13 July 2022 · 15 days
- 3,566 haAl-Kahla14 March 2025 · 12 days
- 3,142 haAl-KahlaJanuary 2016 · 3 days
- 2,978 haAl-KahlaAugust 2021 · 22 days
- 2,802 haAl-Kahla15 March 2018 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Maysan · 30
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,585 haAl-KahlaSeptember 2025 · 41 days
- 1,937 haAl-KahlaAugust 2025 · 17 days
- 1,291 haAl-KahlaJuly 2025 · 22 days
- 1,881 haAl-Kahla17 March 2025 · 9 days
- 1,622 haAl-Kahla15 March 2025 · 5 days
- 2,151 haAl-Kahla15 March 2025 · 17 days
- 1,475 haAl-Kahla14 March 2025 · 6 days
- 3,566 haAl-Kahla14 March 2025 · 12 days
- 1,004 haAl-Mejar Al-KabirApril 2023 · 2 days
- 1,353 haAl-KahlaOctober 2022 · 7 days
- 1,876 haAl-Kahla20 July 2022 · 8 days
- 5,838 haAl-Kahla13 July 2022 · 15 days
- 1,046 haAl-Kahla5 July 2022 · 22 days
- 1,234 haAl-Kahla3 July 2022 · 14 days
- 8,997 haAl-KahlaMay 2022 · 35 days
- 1,134 haAl-KahlaJanuary 2022 · 4 days
- 1,149 haAl-KahlaSeptember 2021 · 9 days
- 2,978 haAl-KahlaAugust 2021 · 22 days
- 1,457 haAl-Kahla20 June 2021 · 2 days
- 1,979 haAl-Kahla1 June 2021 · 4 days
- 1,057 haAl-Mejar Al-KabirSeptember 2018 · 43 days
- 5,942 haAl-KahlaSeptember 2018 · 33 days
- 13,288 haAl-KahlaJune 2018 · 69 days
- 1,798 haAl-KahlaMay 2018 · 2 days
- 1,913 haAl-Mejar Al-KabirApril 2018 · 1 day
- 2,802 haAl-Kahla15 March 2018 · 3 days
- 1,629 haAl-Kahla6 March 2018 · 2 days
- 557 haAl-Mejar Al-KabirApril 2016 · 1 day of 1,035 ha in total
- 2,562 haAl-KahlaFebruary 2016 · 14 days
- 3,142 haAl-KahlaJanuary 2016 · 3 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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