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TR · Türkiye · Elazığ · 23,834 inhabitants

Wildfires in Palu

Palu, Türkiye, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2020: 120 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Fri 13 Very low 12° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 12° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 12° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 12° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 11° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 12° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 14° · 75 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Palu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

120
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
1
fires
711
km²

How many times has Palu burned?

Palu has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Palu fire, September 2020, with 120 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
120
cumulative ha
15 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 Palu

  1. 120 ha Palu fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 120 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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