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Wildfires in Dhi Qar
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 2,280 km² of Dhi Qar at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 278 km², ranking 14th 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 2022, with 542 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 78 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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 32% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 September 2015, with detections in 57 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,280 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,510 | 66% |
| 2 years | 383 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 342 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 17 | 0.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 46.25 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 78 | 564 |
| 2013 | 90 | 1,059 |
| 2014 | 141 | 1,521 |
| 2015 | 527 | 2,165 |
| 2016 | 312 | 1,967 |
| 2017 | 154 | 1,666 |
| 2018 | 404 | 2,379 |
| 2019 | 280 | 1,866 |
| 2020 | 209 | 1,155 |
| 2021 | 253 | 1,413 |
| 2022 | 542 | 2,338 |
| 2023 | 408 | 2,442 |
| 2024 | 242 | 2,045 |
| 2025 | 246 | 2,354 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Wasit72 km
- Maysan109 km
- Al Muthanna109 km
- Al-Qādisiyyah141 km
- Al-Basrah146 km
- Ilam, Iran151 km