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Bulanık fire, October 2025 Bulanık

Out · last detection 1 Oct 2025, 10:52 UTC

The fire started on 1 October 2025 in Bulanık, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 993 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the largest fire in Muş since 2016 (of 35 with a page). Number 27 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
993ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
1 Oct 2025 – 1 Oct 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Oct
2025
Heat detections
15
in a single hotspot: 17 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
150MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Oct1 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

1 Oct 2025 · 150 MW · 15

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

The weather it burned in

20°high
27km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 9 Oct.

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 158 ha in 2024.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.6% of the area of London (9.9 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Bulanık 80,540 inhabitants · 17.9 km from the centre where it started
    992 ha reached on 1 Oct
    0.5 %

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 areas53 %
  • Other natural land47 %

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)
1 Oct 20.4 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 16
2 Oct after 21.2 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 18
3 Oct after 22.7 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
4 Oct after 23.6 °C 16 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
5 Oct after 24.5 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Oct after 24.7 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
7 Oct after 23.8 °C 25 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
8 Oct after 24.0 °C 19 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
9 Oct after 20.7 °C 24 % 60 km/h 1.1 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Sept 2025
After · 8 Oct 2025

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 29 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth0.31
29301234
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 · 15Every 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 Bulanık fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 October 2025 and 1 October 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 993 hectares (9.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bulanık (992 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Bulanık and came within 17.9 km of its centre. 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 20.4 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, 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 · 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. 15 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.