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Wildfires in Karbala'
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 1,080 km² of Karbala' at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 134 km², ranking 16th 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 318 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 30 km². The 2021–2025 average is 378% 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 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 June 2023, with detections in 12 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,080 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 713 | 66% |
| 2 years | 230 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 105 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 16 | 1.4% |
| 11 years or more | 17 | 1.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.25, 44.25 and holds 54% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 30 | 71 |
| 2013 | 41 | 153 |
| 2014 | 55 | 282 |
| 2015 | 54 | 229 |
| 2016 | 72 | 263 |
| 2017 | 76 | 247 |
| 2018 | 73 | 198 |
| 2019 | 107 | 288 |
| 2020 | 158 | 358 |
| 2021 | 211 | 393 |
| 2022 | 98 | 197 |
| 2023 | 264 | 616 |
| 2024 | 318 | 738 |
| 2025 | 318 | 867 |
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.