Wildfires in Tunceli
Tunceli, Türkiye: 14 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 districts since 2016, burning 3,517 hectares inside the region. The largest was Hozat in 19 August 2021, with 768 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
- 3,517ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 7,622 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 768ha
- Hozat · 19 August 2021
- Inhabitants
- 84,855
- 41.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 12 Very low 6° · 57 % · 15 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 9° · 62 % · 15 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 11° · 61 % · 17 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 12° · 55 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 10° · 58 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 10° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 9° · 58 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low 6° · 91 % · 50 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Hozat 6,891 inhabitants 1,427 ha · 2.4 %
- Tunceli merkez 35,161 inhabitants 1,164 ha · 1.0 %
- Pertek 11,669 inhabitants 382 ha · 0.4 %
- Nazımiye 3,599 inhabitants 270 ha · 0.5 %
- Ovacık 6,998 inhabitants 143 ha · 0.1 %
- Pülümür 3,760 inhabitants 129 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Broadleaved forest47 %
- Other natural land35 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland14 %
- Agricultural areas3.8 %
- Other land cover0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Tunceli merkez1,164 ha
- 4×Hozat1,427 ha
- 2×Pertek382 ha
- 2×Pülümür129 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 768 haHozat19 August 2021 · 12 days
- 515 haHozatJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 383 haTunceli merkez Tunceli28 August 2021 · 6 days
- 270 haNazımiye NazmiyeSeptember 2026 · 3 days
- 266 haPertekJuly 2018 · 3 days
- 247 haTunceli merkez TunceliAugust 2017 · 4 days
- 215 haTunceli merkez Tunceli28 August 2021 · 3 days
- 206 haTunceli merkez TunceliSeptember 2017 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Tunceli · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 270 haNazımiye NazmiyeSeptember 2026 · 3 days
- 113 haTunceli merkez TunceliAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 143 haOvacıkSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 383 haTunceli merkez Tunceli28 August 2021 · 6 days
- 215 haTunceli merkez Tunceli28 August 2021 · 3 days
- 768 haHozat19 August 2021 · 12 days
- 140 haHozat18 August 2021 · 6 days
- 515 haHozatJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 120 haPertekJuly 2019 · 1 day
- 100 haPülümürSeptember 2018 · 1 day
- 266 haPertekJuly 2018 · 3 days
- 206 haTunceli merkez TunceliSeptember 2017 · 4 days
- 247 haTunceli merkez TunceliAugust 2017 · 4 days
- 29 haÜzümlüAugust 2016 · 1 day
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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