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Wildfires in Al-Qādisiyyah
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 1,980 km² of Al-Qādisiyyah at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 323 km², ranking 11th 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 493 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 153 km². The 2021–2025 average is 36% 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 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 May 2024, with detections in 54 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,980 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,090 | 55% |
| 2 years | 317 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 404 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 154 | 7.8% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 44.75 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 153 | 165 |
| 2013 | 195 | 211 |
| 2014 | 345 | 432 |
| 2015 | 341 | 481 |
| 2016 | 286 | 318 |
| 2017 | 208 | 245 |
| 2018 | 302 | 365 |
| 2019 | 429 | 516 |
| 2020 | 460 | 572 |
| 2021 | 458 | 546 |
| 2022 | 234 | 259 |
| 2023 | 262 | 337 |
| 2024 | 493 | 620 |
| 2025 | 352 | 440 |
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.