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Wildfires in Çorum

Çorum, Türkiye: 18 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 14 districts since 2016, burning 5,785 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bayat in 4 September 2026, with 907 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 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
5,785ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.5%
12,528 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 14
Largest fire
907ha
Bayat · 4 September 2026
Inhabitants
478,113
12.1 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 17° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 59 % · 45 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 9° · 88 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 6° · 61 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 47 % · 39 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 9° · 42 % · 34 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Bayat 16,525 inhabitants 2,926 ha · 3.9 %
  2. Alaca 2,018 ha · 1.5 %
  3. Sungurlu 49,082 inhabitants 927 ha · 0.5 %
  4. Uğurludağ 8,252 inhabitants 512 ha · 1.2 %
  5. Kargı 15,684 inhabitants 283 ha · 0.2 %
  6. İskilip 32,546 inhabitants 148 ha · 0.1 %
  7. Boğazkale 2,477 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas71 %
  • Other natural land21 %
  • Coniferous forest3.8 %
  • 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
2026103,457 Bayat 907 ha
20242351 Alaca 247 ha
20203711 Alaca 308 ha
20191801 Sungurlu 801 ha
20181424 Bayat 424 ha
201641,078 Alaca 796 ha

All fires in Çorum · 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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