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Wildfires in Ağrı

Ağrı, Türkiye: 33 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 10,815 hectares inside the region. The largest was Doğubayazıt in 23 September 2017, with 2,495 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
10,815ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.0%
11,360 km²
fires
33
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 8
Largest fire
2,495ha
Doğubayazıt · 23 September 2017
Inhabitants
509,152
21.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 6° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 7° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 5° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 6° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 5° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 6° · 77 % · 48 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 7° · 66 % · 54 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 10° · 67 % · 53 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Doğubayazıt 121,263 inhabitants 7,460 ha · 3.3 %
  2. Patnos 122,833 inhabitants 1,527 ha · 1.0 %
  3. Tutak 1,342 ha · 1.0 %
  4. Ağrı merkez 149,188 inhabitants 313 ha · 0.2 %
  5. Eleşkirt 34,180 inhabitants 173 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land97 %
  • Agricultural areas3.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20262242 Patnos 137 ha
2025122,483 Tutak 435 ha
20241136 Patnos 136 ha
20222449 Doğubayazıt 336 ha
20212322 Patnos 182 ha
201941,196 Doğubayazıt 420 ha
201831,376 Doğubayazıt 1,053 ha
201754,150 Doğubayazıt 2,495 ha
20162460 Tutak 287 ha

All fires in Ağrı · 33

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). 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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