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Wildfires in Kurtalan Beşiri

Kurtalan, Türkiye, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 2,104 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 8 Very low 12° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 12° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 11° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 12° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 33 % · 14 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 17° · 49 % · 17 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kurtalan: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,104
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
5
fires
817
km²

How many times has Kurtalan burned?

Kurtalan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Beşiri fire, 11 September 2020, with 6 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
2,104
cumulative ha
11 Sept 2020
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 Kurtalan

  1. 140 ha Beşiri fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 84 ha Kurtalan fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 6 ha Beşiri fire, 11 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 403 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 318 ha Beşiri fire, July 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 689 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 335 ha Kurtalan fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 334 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 780 ha Kurtalan fire, August 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 777 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 665 ha Kurtalan fire, July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 664 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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