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Wildfires in Sivas

Sivas, Türkiye: 57 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 17 districts since 2016, burning 12,046 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yıldızeli in 23 September 2023, with 809 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
12,046ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
28,641 km²
fires
57
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 17
Largest fire
809ha
Yıldızeli · 23 September 2023
Inhabitants
621,824
19.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 7° · 73 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 8° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 5° · 48 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low -1° · 56 % · 47 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low -0° · 55 % · 45 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 4° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 7° · 26 % · 27 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. Kangal 21,669 inhabitants 2,582 ha · 0.8 %
  2. Gürün 18,009 inhabitants 1,852 ha · 0.7 %
  3. Yıldızeli 31,748 inhabitants 1,546 ha · 0.6 %
  4. Şarkışla 37,282 inhabitants 1,500 ha · 0.7 %
  5. Sivas merkez 365,274 inhabitants 1,266 ha · 0.4 %
  6. İmranlı 6,788 inhabitants 1,086 ha · 0.9 %
  7. Divriği 16,893 inhabitants 861 ha · 0.3 %
  8. Zara 21,753 inhabitants 824 ha · 0.3 %
  9. Altınyayla 9,309 inhabitants 253 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Gemerek 24,828 inhabitants 242 ha · 0.2 %
  11. Gölova 3,246 inhabitants 34 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land66 %
  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland3.3 %

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
20261245 Şarkışla 245 ha
20255628 İmranlı 147 ha
2024213,918 Kangal 389 ha
202341,859 Yıldızeli 809 ha
20222588 Şarkışla 554 ha
202061,012 Zara 323 ha
20173937 Divriği 599 ha
2016152,858 Şarkışla 289 ha

All fires in Sivas · 58

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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