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Wildfires in HakkâriHakkari

Hakkâri, Türkiye: 111 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 5 districts since 2016, burning 30,400 hectares inside the region. The largest was Şemdinli in May 2021, with 1,650 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
30,400ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.3%
7,080 km²
fires
111
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 5
Largest fire
1,650ha
Şemdinli · May 2021
Inhabitants
268,098
113.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 8 Very low -0° · 85 % · 53 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low -4° · 58 % · 44 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low -2° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low -3° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 0° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 3° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 4° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 4° · 52 % · 23 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. Yüksekova 119,760 inhabitants 10,559 ha · 4.3 %
  2. Çukurca 17,216 inhabitants 10,077 ha · 11 %
  3. Şemdinli 45,117 inhabitants 5,598 ha · 4.8 %
  4. Derecik 25,907 inhabitants 3,637 ha · 7.3 %
  5. Hakkari merkez 60,098 inhabitants 528 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land51 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland37 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.5 %
  • Agricultural areas3.4 %

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
20261151 Çukurca 151 ha
202562,377 Yüksekova 617 ha
20241123 Yüksekova 123 ha
20234676 Yüksekova 226 ha
20221744 Yüksekova 744 ha
2021187,462 Şemdinli 1,650 ha
2020142,594 Yüksekova 391 ha
2019143,035 Şemdinli 798 ha
2018101,969 Şemdinli 518 ha
2017112,303 Yüksekova 417 ha
2016318,966 Çukurca 1,006 ha

All fires in Hakkâri · 111

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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