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Wildfires in Kirkuk
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 5,770 km² of Kirkuk at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 846 km², ranking 4th 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 2,920 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 184 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% 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.
June, July and August together hold 32% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 June 2019, with detections in 137 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,770 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,010 | 52% |
| 2 years | 1,390 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,140 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 150 | 2.6% |
| 11 years or more | 71 | 1.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, 44.25 and holds 41% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 184 | 9,237 |
| 2013 | 498 | 9,718 |
| 2014 | 548 | 6,752 |
| 2015 | 563 | 9,375 |
| 2016 | 748 | 10,687 |
| 2017 | 755 | 10,127 |
| 2018 | 284 | 6,485 |
| 2019 | 2,920 | 11,342 |
| 2020 | 1,650 | 9,353 |
| 2021 | 509 | 8,368 |
| 2022 | 382 | 7,560 |
| 2023 | 975 | 8,557 |
| 2024 | 1,190 | 9,288 |
| 2025 | 634 | 9,385 |
Other regions of Iraq
- Nineveh1,320 km² in an average year
- Saladin1,050 km² in an average year
- Diyala933 km² in an average year
- Erbil799 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
- Erbil45 km
- As-Sulaymaniyah90 km
- Saladin120 km
- Nineveh142 km
- Duhok142 km
- Hakkâri, Turkey166 km