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Wildfires in Erbil
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 6,040 km² of Erbil at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 799 km², ranking 5th 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 2019, with 2,160 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 155 km². The 2021–2025 average is 53% 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 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 October 2019, with detections in 75 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,040 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,340 | 55% |
| 2 years | 1,540 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,010 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 112 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 32 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, 43.75 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 155 | 1,846 |
| 2013 | 456 | 2,444 |
| 2014 | 318 | 2,973 |
| 2015 | 732 | 3,314 |
| 2016 | 812 | 3,349 |
| 2017 | 510 | 3,709 |
| 2018 | 485 | 4,637 |
| 2019 | 2,160 | 7,181 |
| 2020 | 1,780 | 6,622 |
| 2021 | 581 | 5,747 |
| 2022 | 304 | 4,973 |
| 2023 | 864 | 4,630 |
| 2024 | 1,640 | 5,023 |
| 2025 | 391 | 3,346 |
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
- As-Sulaymaniyah725 km² in an average year
- Maysan612 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
- Kirkuk45 km
- Saladin111 km
- Nineveh119 km
- Duhok119 km
- As-Sulaymaniyah135 km
- Hakkâri, Turkey172 km