Wildfires in Kars
Kars, Türkiye: 2 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 352 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sarıkamış in July 2017, with 208 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
- 352ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 10,280 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 208ha
- Sarıkamış · July 2017
- Inhabitants
- 269,687
- 1.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 8 Very low 3° · 47 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 0° · 46 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 3° · 33 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 4° · 30 % · 17 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 7° · 30 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 10° · 42 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 12° · 38 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 13° · 38 % · 27 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Sarıkamış 42,683 inhabitants 352 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land91 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland7.7 %
- Agricultural areas0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Sarıkamış352 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 352 | Sarıkamış 208 ha |
All fires in Kars · 2
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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