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Wildfires in Afşin

Afşin, Türkiye, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2023: 405 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 17° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 17° · 51 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 76 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 73 % · 52 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 90 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 57 % · 61 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 10° · 70 % · 32 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

405
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
4
fires
1,462
km²

How many times has Afşin burned?

Afşin has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Elbistan fire, 12 September 2024, with 5 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
405
cumulative ha
12 Sept 2024
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Türkiye →

Fires that entered Afşin

  1. 5 ha Elbistan fire, 12 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 249 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 160 ha Afşin fire, August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 71 ha Elbistan fire, 28 July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 402 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 168 ha Afşin fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, OSM Boundaries (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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