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Wildfires in Tunceli

Province of Turkey

Wildfires in Tunceli

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 467 km² of Tunceli at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 39 km², ranking 59th of 81 regions of Turkey.

39 km²detected in an average year
2017busiest year, 80 km²
2022quietest year, 12 km²
Augustpeak month, 35% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 45 km2'122013: 25 km2'132014: 21 km2'142015: 50 km2'152016: 72 km2'162017: 80 km2'172018: 64 km2'182019: 39 km2'192020: 24 km2'202021: 69 km2'212022: 12 km2'222023: 12 km2'232024: 25 km2'242025: 14 km2'2580 km2

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

The busiest year was 2017, with 80 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 12 km². The 2021–2025 average is 38% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.9%JFebruary: 0.8%FMarch: 2.1%MApril: 2.3%AMay: 0.6%MJune: 0.9%JJuly: 9.0%JAugust: 35%ASeptember: 32%SOctober: 8.5%ONovember: 7.2%NDecember: 0.5%D35%

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 76% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 August 2017, with detections in 15 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 467 km² with at least one detection, 1.9% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year39785%
2 years6213%
3 to 5 years7.81.7%
6 to 10 years1.00.2%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 39.25, 39.75 and holds 40% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20124553
20132529
20142122
20155068
20167292
201780142
201864110
20193942
20202427
202169126
20221213
20231213
20242527
20251415

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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.

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