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Wildfires in Türkiye in 2016

223 fires larger than 100 hectares in Türkiye in 2016, with 122,814 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

The year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus EFFIS, 124,684 hectares burned in Türkiye in 2016: 2.5 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (49,771 ha). Only 2021 and 2025 burned more.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 19 August to 25 August: 22,324 hectares burned in seven days, 18% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Nusaybin fire, which started on 23 August 2016 and burned 10,890 hectares: 9% of the area of the year's 223 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 23 May 2016: a Fire Weather Index of 104 (very extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Nusaybin fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

    WorldFires · ERA5 · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
125k ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×2.5 the average
Fires with a page
223
122,814 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
11k ha
Nusaybin · 23 Aug
Highest FWI
104 Very extreme
23 May · Nusaybin

Map of the year

Copernicus EFFIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus EFFIS

Cumulative burned area in 2016 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2006, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus EFFIS climatology for 2006–2025, which includes 2016 itself.

0 67k 135k 202k Worst week · 22k ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2016 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2006

Copernicus EFFIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2016: 124,684 ha Average of the other years: 49,771 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus EFFIS, 124,684 hectares burned in Türkiye in 2016: 2.5 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (49,771 ha). Only 2021 and 2025 burned more.
- The worst week was 19 August to 25 August: 22,324 hectares burned in seven days, 18% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the Nusaybin fire, which started on 23 August 2016 and burned 10,890 hectares: 9% of the area of the year's 223 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 23 May 2016: a Fire Weather Index of 104 (very extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Nusaybin fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Türkiye in 2016”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/turkiye/2016 (accessed 15 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2016, largest first · 223

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus EFFIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Official information for Türkiye is published by: OGM · Orman Genel Müdürlüğü · AFAD

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated