أوتيك fire, July 2026 أوتيك
The fire started on 21 July 2026 in أوتيك, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 807 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 2th largest in Bizerte since 2016 (of 39 with a page). Number 5 in Tunisia in 2026, of 36.
- Burnt area
- 807ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 21 Jul 2026 – 21 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- delegations
- Started on
- 21 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 17
- in a single hotspot: 75 MW
- Danger at start
- 48
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 379MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 11 ha in 2022.
What happened to each town
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أوتيك where it started808 ha reached on 21 Jul2.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Sclerophyllous scrub39 %
- Agricultural areas33 %
- Broadleaved forest20 %
- Coniferous forest5.1 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland2.0 %
- Other natural land1.9 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jul | 43.6 °C | 16 % | 28 km/h | 1.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 22 Jul after | 38.8 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 23 Jul after | 38.7 °C | 28 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 24 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 32 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 25 Jul after | 37.4 °C | 38 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Jul after | 36.1 °C | 44 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 27 Jul after | 31.4 °C | 46 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 35 |
| 28 Jul after | 32.4 °C | 46 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 29 Jul after | 32.2 °C | 52 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 30 Jul after | 32.7 °C | 55 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 31 Jul after | 34.2 °C | 43 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 1 Aug after | 35.6 °C | 36 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 23 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 41 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 27: 1.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 17Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the أوتيك fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 21 July 2026 and 21 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 807 hectares (8.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered أوتيك (808 ha, 2.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 43.6 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 198
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.