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Wildfires in Ninawa

Ninawa, Iraq: 56 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 78,167 hectares inside the region. The largest was Al-Mosul in 14 June 2019, with 2,826 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
78,167ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.1%
37,212 km²
fires
56
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
2,826ha
Al-Mosul · 14 June 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Moderate 27° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 31° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 27° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 25° · 50 % · 32 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Al-Mosul 21,001 ha · 4.4 %
  2. Tilkaef 11,578 ha · 9.1 %
  3. Telafar 11,514 ha · 2.4 %
  4. Aqra 11,509 ha · 3.9 %
  5. Al-Hamdaniya 10,870 ha · 8.3 %
  6. Al-Shikhan 7,742 ha · 6.1 %
  7. Sinjar 2,243 ha · 0.8 %
  8. Al-Hatra 1,710 ha · 0.2 %

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
20261317,728 Telafar 2,108 ha
202532,684 Aqra 1,174 ha
202412,276 Telafar 2,276 ha
202144,165 Aqra 1,364 ha
20201217,604 Sinjar 2,237 ha
20192029,998 Al-Mosul 2,826 ha
201811,329 Aqra 1,329 ha
201622,382 Aqra 1,273 ha

All fires in Ninawa · 56

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).

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