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Wildfires in Gerger

Gerger, Türkiye, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 2,982 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% 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. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 83 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 12° · 79 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 40 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 53 % · 31 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

2,982
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
7
fires
702
km²

How many times has Gerger burned?

Gerger has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Gerger fire, 10 August 2026, with 226 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,982 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,844 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
2,982
cumulative ha
2,844
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 Gerger

  1. 226 ha Gerger fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 225 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 152 ha Gerger fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 958 ha Gerger fire, October 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 956 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 783 ha Gerger fire, June 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 782 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 546 ha Gerger fire, August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 544 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 148 ha Gerger fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 147 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 169 ha Gerger fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 169 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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