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Bor fire, August 2018 Bor

Out · last detection 22 Aug 2018, 23:03 UTC

The fire started on 22 August 2018 in Bor, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 105 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

Number 99 in Türkiye in 2018, of 104.

The power measured by the satellite is low (15.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
105ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
22 Aug 2018 – 22 Aug 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Aug
2018
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
37MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Aug22 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

22

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
39km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 57 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. Bor 60,335 inhabitants · 10.1 km from the town where it started
    106 ha reached on 22 Aug
    0.1 %

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 land100 %

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)
22 Aug 25.1 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
23 Aug after 24.6 °C 20 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Aug after 26.8 °C 15 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Aug after 28.9 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
26 Aug after 28.6 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
27 Aug after 28.5 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
28 Aug after 27.2 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Aug after 26.3 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Aug after 26.6 °C 16 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
31 Aug after 26.2 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
1 Sept after 25.8 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Aug 2018
After · 29 Aug 2018

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 25 August 2018 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1025 µg/m³
202122232425
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 · 4Every 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 Bor fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 August 2018 and 22 August 2018: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 105 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bor (106 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 10.1 km of Bor. 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 25.1 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, class Very high.
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.