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Wildfires in Harran

Harran, Türkiye, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2017: 242 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 3 Very low 23° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 83 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 31 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 22 % · 25 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

242
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
1
fires
869
km²

How many times has Harran burned?

Harran has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Harran fire, June 2017, with 242 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
242
cumulative ha
29 Jun 2017
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 Harran

  1. 242 ha Harran fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 242 ha in total · 3 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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