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Çeşme fire, 13 July 2022 Çeşme

Out · last measured on 14 Jul 2022

The fire started on 13 July 2022 in Çeşme, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 134 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 50th largest in İzmir since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 18 in Türkiye in 2022, of 23.

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
134ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
13 Jul 2022 – 14 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Jul
2022
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

27°high
70km/h · peak gust
44%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 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. Çeşme where it started
    134 ha
    0.5 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland61 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub34 %
  • Agricultural areas5.8 %

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)
13 Jul 25.2 °C 44 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
14 Jul 26.7 °C 44 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
15 Jul after 26.8 °C 50 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Jul after 27.8 °C 46 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
17 Jul after 28.6 °C 44 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
18 Jul after 26.7 °C 45 % 73 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
19 Jul after 25.0 °C 50 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
20 Jul after 25.9 °C 47 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
21 Jul after 26.9 °C 46 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
22 Jul after 27.8 °C 44 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 Jul after 28.2 °C 42 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jul after 29.2 °C 38 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jul 2022
After · 21 Jul 2022

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 17 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
11121314151617
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Çeşme fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 July 2022 and 14 July 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 134 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Çeşme (134 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.7 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.