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Wildfires in Çay

Çay, Türkiye, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 2,559 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% 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. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 54 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 59 % · 52 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 56 % · 53 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 7° · 79 % · 40 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 5° · 65 % · 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

2,559
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
8
fires
785
km²

How many times has Çay burned?

Çay has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Çay fire, August 2025, with 106 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,559 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,896 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
2,559
cumulative ha
1,896
distinct ha

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 Çay

  1. 106 ha Çay fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 106 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 852 ha Çay fire, October 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 852 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 236 ha Çay fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 236 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 188 ha Çay fire, 28 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 187 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 193 ha Çay fire, 18 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 193 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 196 ha Çay fire, 16 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 195 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 569 ha Çay fire, September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 569 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 220 ha Çay fire, March 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 219 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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