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Wildfires in Kastamonu

Kastamonu, Türkiye: 4 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 20 districts since 2016, burning 3,786 hectares inside the region. The largest was Safranbolu in August 2025, with 1,849 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
3,786ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
13,167 km²
fires
4
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 20
Largest fire
1,849ha
Safranbolu · August 2025
Inhabitants
386,939
9.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 17° · 59 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 9° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 11° · 67 % · 15 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 13° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 14° · 79 % · 50 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 14° · 88 % · 53 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 14° · 75 % · 37 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. Araç 18,863 inhabitants 2,391 ha · 1.7 %
  2. Taşköprü 38,849 inhabitants 1,395 ha · 0.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest58 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland31 %
  • Agricultural areas7.9 %
  • Mixed forest2.9 %

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
202522,160 Safranbolu 1,849 ha
202011,395 Taşköprü 1,395 ha
20181231 Araç 231 ha

All fires in Kastamonu · 4

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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