Wildfires in Van
Van, Türkiye: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 543 hectares inside the region. The largest was Edremit in September 2018, with 247 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 543ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 20,731 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 247ha
- Edremit · September 2018
- Inhabitants
- 963,262
- 0.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 14° · 44 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 14° · 33 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 12° · 47 % · 41 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 13° · 44 % · 37 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 14° · 45 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 34 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 12° · 71 % · 29 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 11° · 72 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Edremit 125,884 inhabitants 247 ha · 0.3 %
- Çaldıran 63,013 inhabitants 189 ha · 0.1 %
- Gürpınar 35,663 inhabitants 108 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land59 %
- Agricultural areas41 %
Largest recorded fires
- 247 haEdremitSeptember 2018 · 1 day
- 189 haÇaldıranSeptember 2021 · 2 days
- 108 haGürpınarSeptember 2025 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Van · 3
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).