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Wildfires in Bingöl

Bingöl, Türkiye: 20 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 9,159 hectares inside the region. The largest was Genç in August 2018, with 2,713 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
9,159ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.1%
8,271 km²
fires
20
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 8
Largest fire
2,713ha
Genç · August 2018
Inhabitants
281,205
32.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 4° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 6° · 39 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 8° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 10° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 12° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 13° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 10° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 10° · 58 % · 19 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. Genç 38,428 inhabitants 6,910 ha · 4.3 %
  2. Yayladere 2,139 inhabitants 1,272 ha · 3.6 %
  3. Bingöl merkez 160,165 inhabitants 507 ha · 0.3 %
  4. Kiğı 5,013 inhabitants 221 ha · 0.4 %
  5. Karlıova 29,650 inhabitants 169 ha · 0.1 %
  6. Adaklı 9,315 inhabitants 81 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland37 %
  • Broadleaved forest34 %
  • Other natural land23 %
  • 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
20252253 Kiğı 152 ha
20242284 Karlıova 169 ha
20232248 Bingöl merkez 147 ha
202122,984 Genç 2,602 ha
20203942 Yayladere 487 ha
20191276 Yayladere 276 ha
201812,713 Genç 2,713 ha
20172270 Adaklı 149 ha
201651,189 Genç 637 ha

All fires in Bingöl · 20

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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