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Wildfires in Nineveh
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 11,410 km² of Nineveh at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,320 km², ranking 1st 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 6,170 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 125 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% lower 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 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 July 2019, with detections in 229 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 11,410 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,170 | 63% |
| 2 years | 2,580 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,540 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 109 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 15 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 43.25 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 125 | 675 |
| 2013 | 542 | 1,378 |
| 2014 | 688 | 1,506 |
| 2015 | 1,650 | 2,759 |
| 2016 | 1,380 | 6,068 |
| 2017 | 677 | 2,507 |
| 2018 | 190 | 1,442 |
| 2019 | 6,170 | 8,625 |
| 2020 | 3,660 | 5,408 |
| 2021 | 322 | 1,843 |
| 2022 | 160 | 1,690 |
| 2023 | 566 | 1,842 |
| 2024 | 2,130 | 3,980 |
| 2025 | 280 | 1,831 |
Other regions of Iraq
- 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
- 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
- Duhok0 km
- Al-Hasakah, Syria89 km
- Şırnak, Turkey104 km
- Hakkâri, Turkey104 km
- Erbil119 km
- Kirkuk142 km