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Wildfires in Muğla

Muğla, Türkiye: 46 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 79,055 hectares inside the region. The largest was Milas in July 2021, with 16,155 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
79,055ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.3%
12,602 km²
fires
46
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 13
Largest fire
16,155ha
Milas · July 2021
Inhabitants
808,522
97.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 60 % · 13 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 20° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 20° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 22° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 22° · 47 % · 17 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 21° · 54 % · 21 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. Marmaris 97,818 inhabitants 16,749 ha · 18 %
  2. Köyceğiz 38,425 inhabitants 13,167 ha · 9.4 %
  3. Milas 139,446 inhabitants 12,175 ha · 5.8 %
  4. Menteşe 112,447 inhabitants 11,770 ha · 7.2 %
  5. Bodrum 187,284 inhabitants 8,035 ha · 12 %
  6. Seydikemer 62,246 inhabitants 6,375 ha · 3.2 %
  7. Kavaklıdere 10,898 inhabitants 5,003 ha · 15 %
  8. Yatağan 44,940 inhabitants 2,360 ha · 3.1 %
  9. Fethiye 1,411 ha · 1.4 %
  10. Dalaman 41,351 inhabitants 987 ha · 1.6 %
  11. Datça 766 ha · 1.8 %
  12. Ortaca 48,373 inhabitants 184 ha · 0.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest53 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland25 %
  • Agricultural areas9.4 %
  • Other natural land5.0 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub4.7 %
  • Mixed forest1.5 %
  • Broadleaved 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
202686,993 Seydikemer 5,295 ha
202533,069 Köyceğiz 2,781 ha
202482,278 Menteşe 616 ha
20232313 Milas 163 ha
202235,723 Marmaris 4,561 ha
20211256,748 Milas 16,155 ha
20203512 Çine 196 ha
201942,062 Fethiye 1,346 ha
20171493 Menteşe 493 ha
20162865 Bodrum 550 ha

All fires in Muğla · 46

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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