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Wildfires in Derik

Derik, Türkiye, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 9,444 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 79 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 88 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 21 % · 40 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

9,444
hectares burned
6.9 %
of its area
13
fires
1,360
km²

How many times has Derik burned?

Derik has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Ceylanpınar fire, June 2026, with 4 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,444 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,939 hectares, 6.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 6× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
5
years with fire
9,444
cumulative ha
8,939
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 Derik

  1. 4 ha Ceylanpınar fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 400 ha Derik fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 399 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 130 ha Derik fire, 24 July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 308 ha Derik fire, 24 July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 127 ha Derik fire, 27 June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 7,060 ha Derik fire, 21 June 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 7,048 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 3 ha Viranşehir fire, 13 June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,523 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 360 ha Derik fire, July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 359 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 291 ha Derik fire, 30 June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 290 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 119 ha Derik fire, 8 June 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 326 ha Derik fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 325 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 211 ha Derik fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 211 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 106 ha Derik fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 105 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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