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Wildfires in Ankara

Ankara, Türkiye: 16 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 25 districts since 2016, burning 7,019 hectares inside the region. The largest was Haymana in August 2026, with 2,107 hectares inside the region. 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.

These figures leave out 5 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
7,019ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
25,713 km²
fires
16
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 25
Largest fire
2,107ha
Haymana · August 2026
Inhabitants
5,445,596
1.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 18° · 50 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 18° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 15° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 15° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 17° · 60 % · 60 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 19° · 66 % · 54 km/h

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Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Haymana 45,931 inhabitants 3,279 ha · 1.5 %
  2. Nallıhan 28,091 inhabitants 2,067 ha · 1.0 %
  3. Kızılcahamam 32,647 inhabitants 620 ha · 0.4 %
  4. Polatlı 125,075 inhabitants 271 ha · 0.1 %
  5. Mamak 647,252 inhabitants 198 ha · 0.6 %
  6. Gölbaşı 920,890 inhabitants 157 ha · 0.1 %
  7. Güdül 10,074 inhabitants 137 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Sincan 117 ha · 0.1 %
  9. Şereflikoçhisar 34,202 inhabitants 100 ha · 0.0 %
  10. Çankaya 606,472 inhabitants 73 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land73 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
  • Coniferous forest9.7 %
  • Agricultural areas6.6 %

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
202652,825 Haymana 2,107 ha
20243699 Gerede 435 ha
20231166 Polatlı 166 ha
202021,189 Nallıhan 1,086 ha
20171100 Şereflikoçhisar 100 ha
201642,040 Haymana 997 ha

All fires in Ankara · 21

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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