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Wildfires in Kurdistan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,340 km² of Kurdistan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 404 km², ranking 9th of 31 regions of Iran.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2024, with 1,140 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 116 km². The 2021–2025 average is 66% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 September 2024, with detections in 44 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,340 km² with at least one detection, 6.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,510 | 81% |
| 2 years | 565 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 243 | 5.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 3.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, 46.25 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 145 | 226 |
| 2013 | 414 | 451 |
| 2014 | 251 | 289 |
| 2015 | 353 | 392 |
| 2016 | 476 | 520 |
| 2017 | 204 | 240 |
| 2018 | 439 | 503 |
| 2019 | 360 | 387 |
| 2020 | 294 | 348 |
| 2021 | 290 | 375 |
| 2022 | 116 | 169 |
| 2023 | 629 | 710 |
| 2024 | 1,140 | 1,205 |
| 2025 | 554 | 613 |
Other regions of Iran
- Khuzestan3,680 km² in an average year
- Fars1,460 km² in an average year
- Kermanshah934 km² in an average year
- Lorestan580 km² in an average year
- Golestan539 km² in an average year
- Ilam451 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- As-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq90 km
- Kirkuk, Iraq180 km
- West Azerbaijan189 km
- Kermanshah190 km
- Erbil, Iraq225 km
- Hakkâri, Turkey244 km