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Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 116,240 km² of Turkey at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 17,770 km², ranking 59th of 200 countries.

17,770 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 29,510 km²
2022quietest year, 9,740 km²
Septemberpeak month, 19% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 14,760 km2'122013: 22,850 km2'132014: 13,070 km2'142015: 29,510 km2'152016: 25,970 km2'162017: 17,660 km2'172018: 15,390 km2'182019: 16,930 km2'192020: 18,130 km2'202021: 13,490 km2'212022: 9,740 km2'222023: 17,080 km2'232024: 20,260 km2'242025: 13,890 km2'2529,510 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 29,510 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 9,740 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 3.0%JFebruary: 2.7%FMarch: 3.4%MApril: 3.6%AMay: 3.7%MJune: 11%JJuly: 10%JAugust: 15%ASeptember: 19%SOctober: 16%ONovember: 10%NDecember: 4.7%D19%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 September 2015, with detections in 719 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 116,240 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year67,57058%
2 years20,29017%
3 to 5 years19,83017%
6 to 10 years7,6006.5%
11 years or more9360.8%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, 40.25 and holds 3.9% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201214,76025,972
201322,85037,748
201413,07024,232
201529,51047,070
201625,97041,577
201717,66031,362
201815,39027,209
201916,93029,444
202018,13032,109
202113,49027,967
20229,74019,922
202317,08029,567
202420,26034,332
202513,89027,292

Nearby countries

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Nearby countries

Travel checks here

Fire near holiday places, with the sea, the sun and the bathing water: Alanya · Antalya · Bodrum · Cesme · Fethiye · Marmaris

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What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.

What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.