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Wildfires in Duhok
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 3,990 km² of Duhok at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 587 km², ranking 8th 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 2021, with 1,090 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 179 km². The 2021–2025 average is 28% 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.
July, August and September together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 July 2015, with detections in 50 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,990 km² with at least one detection, 28% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,800 | 45% |
| 2 years | 1,080 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,020 | 26% |
| 6 to 10 years | 86 | 2.2% |
| 11 years or more | 6.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 43.25 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 243 | 383 |
| 2013 | 179 | 280 |
| 2014 | 426 | 665 |
| 2015 | 692 | 1,162 |
| 2016 | 893 | 1,533 |
| 2017 | 395 | 1,529 |
| 2018 | 419 | 2,661 |
| 2019 | 892 | 4,360 |
| 2020 | 947 | 3,788 |
| 2021 | 1,090 | 4,354 |
| 2022 | 186 | 2,863 |
| 2023 | 581 | 1,678 |
| 2024 | 928 | 2,848 |
| 2025 | 337 | 2,408 |
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
- Nineveh0 km
- Al-Hasakah, Syria89 km
- Şırnak, Turkey104 km
- Hakkâri, Turkey104 km
- Erbil119 km
- Kirkuk142 km