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Wildfires in Batman

Batman, Türkiye: 44 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 11,853 hectares inside the region. The largest was Midyat in 24 July 2016, with 1,235 hectares inside the region. 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.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
11,853ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.6%
4,569 km²
fires
44
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
1,235ha
Midyat · 24 July 2016
Inhabitants
567,426
20.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 50 % · 16 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 84 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 77 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 12° · 29 % · 21 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Kozluk 61,437 inhabitants 3,616 ha · 3.5 %
  2. Gercüş 20,484 inhabitants 3,414 ha · 3.6 %
  3. Beşiri 445,874 inhabitants 3,009 ha · 3.6 %
  4. Batman Merkez 1,326 ha · 2.0 %
  5. Hasankeyf 6,724 inhabitants 698 ha · 1.9 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas63 %
  • Other natural land33 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland3.6 %

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
20263210 Kurtalan 98 ha
20251214 Gercüş 214 ha
202481,879 Hasankeyf 495 ha
20231148 Beşiri 148 ha
20212565 Gercüş 442 ha
2020143,696 Kozluk 614 ha
201971,430 Kozluk 363 ha
20181270 Kozluk 270 ha
20171112 Beşiri 112 ha
201693,539 Midyat 1,235 ha

All fires in Batman · 47

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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