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Besni fire, 14 June 2024 Besni, Adıyaman merkez

Out · last measured on 14 Jun 2024

The fire started on 14 June 2024 in Besni, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 203 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 17th largest in Adıyaman since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 142 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
203ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
14 Jun
2024
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

40°high
28km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Besni 77,301 inhabitants · 36.7 km from the centre where it started
    203 ha
    0.2 %
  2. Adıyaman merkez Adıyaman 267,131 inhabitants · 32.8 km from the centre
    0 ha
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas78 %
  • Other natural land22 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
14 Jun 40.0 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
15 Jun after 40.3 °C 15 % 48 km/h 0.2 mm Very extreme 70
16 Jun after 38.7 °C 17 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
17 Jun after 38.9 °C 16 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
18 Jun after 39.7 °C 11 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
19 Jun after 41.7 °C 11 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
20 Jun after 43.1 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.5 mm Extreme 54
21 Jun after 41.4 °C 13 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
22 Jun after 41.0 °C 12 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Jun after 42.1 °C 11 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 61
24 Jun after 40.8 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 54.1, a minimum humidity of 15% and 20 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 45.

FWI at the start 54.1
Minimum humidity 15 %
Days without rain 20
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Adıyaman merkez fire, June 2025
140 ha 1 day FWI 51.4 Min. humidity 15 % 10 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

1 day
median duration
182 ha
median area
7 %
went past 1,000 ha
3.2 mm
rain at the end (median; 6 of 45 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (203 ha against a median of 182 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 1 day.

In 39 of 45, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.2 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
28km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 14 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 6 of 45, with a median of 3.2 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 7 Jun 2024
After · 21 Jun 2024

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 · Copernicus

On 15 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1060 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
12 Jun14 Jun16 Jun
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Besni fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 203 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Besni (203 ha, 0.2 %); Adıyaman merkez (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 32.8 km of the centre of Adıyaman merkez, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.0 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Türkiye (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 45. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 182 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. In 39 of 45, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.2 mm.

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: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.