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Wildfires in Baghdad
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 293 km² of Baghdad at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 51 km², ranking 18th 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 69 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 29 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.6% lower 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.
June, July and August together hold 34% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 August 2014, with detections in 6 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 293 km² with at least one detection, 27% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 163 | 55% |
| 2 years | 51 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 55 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 16 | 5.3% |
| 11 years or more | 9.4 | 3.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 33.25, 44.25 and holds 97% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 45 | 280 |
| 2013 | 29 | 360 |
| 2014 | 68 | 435 |
| 2015 | 63 | 364 |
| 2016 | 61 | 272 |
| 2017 | 61 | 249 |
| 2018 | 48 | 347 |
| 2019 | 44 | 381 |
| 2020 | 44 | 269 |
| 2021 | 48 | 285 |
| 2022 | 39 | 211 |
| 2023 | 50 | 173 |
| 2024 | 69 | 321 |
| 2025 | 42 | 182 |
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.