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Wildfires in Araç

Araç, Türkiye, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 2,391 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 31 Very low 15° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 88 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 5° · 74 % · 34 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

2,391
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,447
km²

How many times has Araç burned?

Araç has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2025. The most recent: Araç fire, September 2025, with 311 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,391
cumulative ha
1 Sept 2025
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 Araç

  1. 311 ha Araç fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 345 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,849 ha Safranbolu fire, August 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 2,871 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 231 ha Araç fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 2 days

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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