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Wildfires in Şırnak
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 2,250 km² of Şırnak at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 342 km², ranking 12th 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 2016, with 772 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 65 km². The 2021–2025 average is 63% 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.
June, July and August together hold 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 June 2017, with detections in 41 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,250 km² with at least one detection, 27% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,140 | 51% |
| 2 years | 511 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 479 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 118 | 5.3% |
| 11 years or more | 3.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, 42.25 and holds 43% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 262 | 312 |
| 2013 | 205 | 272 |
| 2014 | 218 | 266 |
| 2015 | 688 | 913 |
| 2016 | 772 | 1,015 |
| 2017 | 504 | 660 |
| 2018 | 492 | 620 |
| 2019 | 361 | 441 |
| 2020 | 495 | 620 |
| 2021 | 219 | 294 |
| 2022 | 65 | 73 |
| 2023 | 175 | 207 |
| 2024 | 237 | 293 |
| 2025 | 90 | 106 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Al-Hasakah, Syria55 km
- Siirt70 km
- Batman104 km
- Nineveh, Iraq104 km
- Duhok, Iraq104 km
- Bitlis119 km