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Wildfires in Karabük

Karabük, Türkiye: 8 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 districts since 2016, burning 8,470 hectares inside the region. The largest was Safranbolu in July 2025, with 6,590 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
8,470ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.0%
4,185 km²
fires
8
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 6
Largest fire
6,590ha
Safranbolu · July 2025
Inhabitants
248,014
34.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 17° · 77 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 9° · 81 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 13° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 12° · 83 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 13° · 84 % · 68 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 15° · 88 % · 55 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. Merkez 131,989 inhabitants 4,928 ha · 6.9 %
  2. Ovacık 5,085 inhabitants 1,988 ha · 4.8 %
  3. Safranbolu 67,042 inhabitants 1,371 ha · 1.9 %
  4. Eflani 9,088 inhabitants 184 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest63 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland26 %
  • Agricultural areas7.6 %
  • Other natural land1.5 %
  • Mixed forest1.4 %

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
202578,336 Safranbolu 6,590 ha
20241134 Ovacık 134 ha

All fires in Karabük · 8

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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