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Wildfires in Istanbul
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 437 km² of Istanbul at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 44 km², ranking 55th 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 2012, with 78 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 23 km². The 2021–2025 average is 40% 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.
July, August and September together hold 41% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 September 2015, with detections in 6 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 437 km² with at least one detection, 7.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 345 | 79% |
| 2 years | 61 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 22 | 5.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.6 | 1.3% |
| 11 years or more | 3.7 | 0.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.25, 28.75 and holds 91% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 78 | 391 |
| 2013 | 67 | 431 |
| 2014 | 54 | 429 |
| 2015 | 49 | 415 |
| 2016 | 60 | 404 |
| 2017 | 40 | 387 |
| 2018 | 23 | 279 |
| 2019 | 38 | 400 |
| 2020 | 30 | 357 |
| 2021 | 27 | 341 |
| 2022 | 33 | 327 |
| 2023 | 38 | 317 |
| 2024 | 39 | 317 |
| 2025 | 47 | 367 |
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.