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Wildfires in Buca

Buca, Türkiye, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,613 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% 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. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 88 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 59 % · 14 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 78 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 84 % · 33 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

1,613
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
4
fires
205
km²

How many times has Buca burned?

Buca has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Buca fire, August 2025, with 137 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
1,613
cumulative ha
12 Aug 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 Buca

  1. 137 ha Buca fire, August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 224 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 816 ha Gaziemir fire, July 2025 4.0% of the municipality · 1,623 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 401 ha Buca fire, July 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 589 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 259 ha Buca fire, August 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 259 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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