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Wildfires in Malatya

Malatya, Türkiye: 38 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 8,408 hectares inside the region. The largest was Darende in September 2024, with 571 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
8,408ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.7%
12,316 km²
fires
38
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 13
Largest fire
571ha
Darende · September 2024
Inhabitants
797,036
10.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Very low 11° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 12° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 62 % · 12 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 64 % · 12 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 16° · 63 % · 16 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 59 % · 14 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 61 % · 13 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 67 % · 13 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. Hekimhan 22,867 inhabitants 1,435 ha · 1.0 %
  2. Akçadağ 35,359 inhabitants 1,394 ha · 1.2 %
  3. Pütürge 15,049 inhabitants 1,193 ha · 1.1 %
  4. Darende 29,045 inhabitants 1,185 ha · 0.8 %
  5. Kuluncak 8,384 inhabitants 821 ha · 1.2 %
  6. Arapgir 10,868 inhabitants 815 ha · 0.8 %
  7. Doğanyol 4,420 inhabitants 589 ha · 3.2 %
  8. Arguvan 8,157 inhabitants 475 ha · 0.4 %
  9. Doğanşehir 39,454 inhabitants 331 ha · 0.2 %
  10. Kale 6,100 inhabitants 170 ha · 0.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land87 %
  • Agricultural areas8.3 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland4.1 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.5 %

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
20263663 Hekimhan 309 ha
202561,302 Doğanyol 476 ha
2024112,233 Darende 571 ha
20231117 Hekimhan 117 ha
20212238 Akçadağ 125 ha
20203302 Arguvan 145 ha
201951,006 Elbistan 339 ha
201672,547 Kuluncak 568 ha

All fires in Malatya · 38

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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