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Wildfires in Babylon
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2,570 km² of Babylon at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 311 km², ranking 13th 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 2014, with 383 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 96 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% 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 39% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 September 2017, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,570 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,580 | 61% |
| 2 years | 596 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 353 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 42 | 1.6% |
| 11 years or more | 6.2 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.75, 44.25 and holds 53% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 96 | 324 |
| 2013 | 203 | 435 |
| 2014 | 383 | 609 |
| 2015 | 341 | 584 |
| 2016 | 366 | 492 |
| 2017 | 347 | 523 |
| 2018 | 251 | 421 |
| 2019 | 339 | 514 |
| 2020 | 353 | 560 |
| 2021 | 352 | 582 |
| 2022 | 343 | 486 |
| 2023 | 349 | 395 |
| 2024 | 348 | 466 |
| 2025 | 287 | 543 |
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.