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Wildfires in Şanlıurfa
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 10,410 km² of Şanlıurfa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,420 km², ranking 1st 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 2015, with 3,950 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 1,210 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% higher 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.
June, July and August together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 June 2020, with detections in 179 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 10,410 km² with at least one detection, 53% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,940 | 28% |
| 2 years | 1,970 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,830 | 37% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,600 | 15% |
| 11 years or more | 79 | 0.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, 39.75 and holds 22% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,210 | 1,558 |
| 2013 | 2,320 | 3,078 |
| 2014 | 1,490 | 1,895 |
| 2015 | 3,950 | 5,435 |
| 2016 | 2,480 | 3,280 |
| 2017 | 2,090 | 2,633 |
| 2018 | 1,350 | 1,608 |
| 2019 | 2,150 | 2,695 |
| 2020 | 3,400 | 4,853 |
| 2021 | 2,360 | 3,176 |
| 2022 | 1,660 | 2,126 |
| 2023 | 3,350 | 4,506 |
| 2024 | 3,550 | 4,759 |
| 2025 | 2,560 | 3,687 |
Other regions of Turkey
- 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
- Kahramanmaraş492 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.
Nearby regions
- Mardin44 km
- Diyarbakır104 km
- Al-Raqqah, Syria142 km
- Adıyaman143 km
- Batman143 km
- Elazığ166 km