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Wildfires in Wasit
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 4,610 km² of Wasit at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 569 km², ranking 9th 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 1,300 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 124 km². The 2021–2025 average is 42% 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 41% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 June 2020, with detections in 54 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,610 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,740 | 59% |
| 2 years | 1,090 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 710 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 65 | 1.4% |
| 11 years or more | 9.3 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.25, 45.75 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 124 | 1,350 |
| 2013 | 392 | 1,647 |
| 2014 | 460 | 1,703 |
| 2015 | 422 | 2,078 |
| 2016 | 539 | 2,474 |
| 2017 | 447 | 2,292 |
| 2018 | 325 | 1,826 |
| 2019 | 1,300 | 2,323 |
| 2020 | 1,210 | 2,134 |
| 2021 | 662 | 1,469 |
| 2022 | 236 | 798 |
| 2023 | 501 | 1,025 |
| 2024 | 838 | 1,506 |
| 2025 | 508 | 1,360 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Dhi Qar72 km
- Al-Qādisiyyah109 km
- Al Muthanna120 km
- Maysan141 km
- Karbala'141 km
- Babylon151 km