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Wildfires in Saladin
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 8,670 km² of Saladin at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,050 km², ranking 2nd 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 3,450 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 195 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% 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.
May, June and July together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 May 2019, with detections in 128 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,670 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,250 | 60% |
| 2 years | 1,970 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,340 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 105 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 34.75, 43.75 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 195 | 2,051 |
| 2013 | 587 | 2,383 |
| 2014 | 1,180 | 2,319 |
| 2015 | 773 | 3,559 |
| 2016 | 1,120 | 4,122 |
| 2017 | 633 | 3,231 |
| 2018 | 446 | 1,051 |
| 2019 | 3,450 | 4,622 |
| 2020 | 1,940 | 2,948 |
| 2021 | 551 | 1,658 |
| 2022 | 382 | 1,482 |
| 2023 | 1,250 | 2,404 |
| 2024 | 1,340 | 2,902 |
| 2025 | 884 | 3,112 |
Other regions of Iraq
- Nineveh1,320 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
- Erbil111 km
- Kirkuk120 km
- Kermanshah, Iran148 km
- Diyala173 km
- Baghdad173 km
- As-Sulaymaniyah175 km