Wildfires in Bitlis
Bitlis, Türkiye: 20 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 5,983 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bitlis merkez in 29 August 2020, with 1,003 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 5,983ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 8,369 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,003ha
- Bitlis merkez · 29 August 2020
- Inhabitants
- 314,736
- 19.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 15° · 38 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 15° · 30 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 14° · 49 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 15° · 43 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 16° · 52 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 13° · 79 % · 40 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 11° · 82 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 12° · 67 % · 41 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Bitlis merkez 52,024 inhabitants 4,105 ha · 3.8 %
- Mutki 32,090 inhabitants 726 ha · 0.6 %
- Tatvan 92,695 inhabitants 602 ha · 0.3 %
- Adilcevaz 15,193 inhabitants 376 ha · 0.3 %
- Hizan 34,186 inhabitants 175 ha · 0.2 %
- Güroymak 47,742 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Scrub and transitional woodland38 %
- Broadleaved forest32 %
- Other natural land21 %
- Other land cover6.0 %
- Mixed forest2.0 %
- Agricultural areas1.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 10×Bitlis merkez4,105 ha
- 4×Tatvan602 ha
- 3×Mutki726 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,003 haBitlis merkez Bitlis29 August 2020 · 4 days
- 519 haBitlis merkez Bitlis30 August 2021 · 3 days
- 419 haMutkiSeptember 2018 · 4 days
- 393 haBitlis merkez Bitlis8 August 2020 · 4 days
- 389 haBitlis merkez BitlisSeptember 2020 · 4 days
- 382 haBitlis merkez Bitlis23 August 2021 · 4 days
- 376 haAdilcevazAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 353 haBitlis merkez BitlisSeptember 2018 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 474 | Tatvan 221 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 484 | Adilcevaz 376 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 196 | Mutki 196 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 1,245 | Bitlis merkez 519 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 1,916 | Bitlis merkez 1,003 ha |
| 2018 | 5 | 1,325 | Mutki 419 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | Korkut 0 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 344 | Bitlis merkez 344 ha |
All fires in Bitlis · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 142 haTatvanSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 221 haTatvanSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 111 haMutkiAugust 2026 · 2 days
- 108 haTatvanAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 376 haAdilcevazAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 196 haMutkiAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 519 haBitlis merkez Bitlis30 August 2021 · 3 days
- 382 haBitlis merkez Bitlis23 August 2021 · 4 days
- 345 haBitlis merkez BitlisJune 2021 · 3 days of 425 ha in total
- 389 haBitlis merkez BitlisSeptember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,003 haBitlis merkez Bitlis29 August 2020 · 4 days
- 393 haBitlis merkez Bitlis8 August 2020 · 4 days
- 131 haTatvanAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 353 haBitlis merkez BitlisSeptember 2018 · 3 days
- 419 haMutkiSeptember 2018 · 4 days
- 175 haHizanJuly 2018 · 3 days
- 138 haBitlis merkez Bitlis27 July 2018 · 3 days
- 240 haBitlis merkez Bitlis12 July 2018 · 1 day
- 0 haKorkut Korkut ilçesiSeptember 2017 · 2 days of 242 ha in total
- 344 haBitlis merkez BitlisAugust 2016 · 2 days
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).