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Wildfires in Al Anbar
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 3,000 km² of Al Anbar at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 322 km², ranking 12th of 18 regions of Iraq.
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 692 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 64 km². The 2021–2025 average is 55% 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.
May, June and July together hold 33% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 August 2019, with detections in 23 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,000 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,100 | 70% |
| 2 years | 562 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 307 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 27 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 2.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.25, 43.25 and holds 20% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 64 | 265 |
| 2013 | 139 | 449 |
| 2014 | 384 | 555 |
| 2015 | 394 | 535 |
| 2016 | 424 | 559 |
| 2017 | 155 | 310 |
| 2018 | 129 | 297 |
| 2019 | 389 | 638 |
| 2020 | 247 | 527 |
| 2021 | 218 | 764 |
| 2022 | 196 | 730 |
| 2023 | 460 | 1,302 |
| 2024 | 692 | 1,332 |
| 2025 | 609 | 1,508 |
Other regions of Iraq
- Nineveh1,320 km² in an average year
- Saladin1,050 km² in an average year
- Diyala933 km² in an average year
- Kirkuk846 km² in an average year
- Erbil799 km² in an average year
- As-Sulaymaniyah725 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.