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Bodrum fire, June 2016 Karaada · Bodrum

Out · last detection 19 Jun 2016, 00:50 UTC

The fire started on 18 June 2016 in Bodrum, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 550 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 13th largest in Muğla since 2016 (of 43 with a page). Number 63 in Türkiye in 2016, of 223.

Burnt area
550ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
18 Jun 2016 – 18 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
18 Jun
2016
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 85 MW
Danger at start
21
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
178MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jun18 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

1819

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

28°high
52km/h · peak gust
57%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 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. Bodrum Karaada 187,284 inhabitants · 14.6 km from the town where it started
    550 ha reached on 18 Jun
    0.8 %

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

  • Other natural land93 %
  • Artificial surfaces6.4 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub0.5 %

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)
18 Jun 27.5 °C 57 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
19 Jun after 25.7 °C 68 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
20 Jun after 24.8 °C 81 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
21 Jun after 27.7 °C 66 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
22 Jun after 27.6 °C 66 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
23 Jun after 28.5 °C 63 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Jun after 27.9 °C 66 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jun after 25.3 °C 85 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
26 Jun after 23.9 °C 79 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
27 Jun after 25.3 °C 78 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
28 Jun after 25.4 °C 78 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Jun 2016
After · 25 Jun 2016

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 18 June 2016 the air beside the fire reached 63 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 38: 2.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak63 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM10116 µg/m³
16171819202122
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)

Detections table · 8Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bodrum fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 18 June 2016 and 18 June 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 550 hectares (5.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bodrum (550 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 14.6 km of Bodrum. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.5 °C, humidity dropped to 57 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
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.

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

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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.