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Wildfires in Bitlis
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 701 km² of Bitlis at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 68 km², ranking 50th of 81 regions of Turkey.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2018, with 171 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 29 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
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 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 August 2016, with detections in 14 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 701 km² with at least one detection, 7.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 552 | 79% |
| 2 years | 95 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 49 | 7.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4.8 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 38.25, 41.75 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 38 | 40 |
| 2013 | 49 | 71 |
| 2014 | 35 | 38 |
| 2015 | 78 | 99 |
| 2016 | 93 | 122 |
| 2017 | 70 | 87 |
| 2018 | 171 | 215 |
| 2019 | 67 | 79 |
| 2020 | 83 | 120 |
| 2021 | 70 | 95 |
| 2022 | 30 | 34 |
| 2023 | 29 | 30 |
| 2024 | 52 | 57 |
| 2025 | 84 | 97 |
Other regions of Turkey
- Şanlıurfa2,420 km² in an average year
- Diyarbakır1,420 km² in an average year
- Adana1,370 km² in an average year
- Mardin1,320 km² in an average year
- Konya1,140 km² in an average year
- Adıyaman552 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
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.