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Çeşme fire, July 2024 Çeşme

Out · last measured on 15 Jul 2024

The fire started on 15 July 2024 in Çeşme, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 186 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 39th largest in İzmir since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 155 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.

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
186ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Jul 2024 – 15 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
15 Jul
2024
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

30°high
59km/h · peak gust
43%lowest humidity

It had gone 49 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Çeşme where it started
    186 ha
    0.7 %

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 woodland56 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub44 %

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)
15 Jul 29.9 °C 43 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Jul after 29.3 °C 52 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Jul after 31.1 °C 46 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Jul after 31.9 °C 44 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
19 Jul after 31.8 °C 43 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
20 Jul after 30.0 °C 59 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
21 Jul after 29.1 °C 63 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
22 Jul after 30.1 °C 58 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Jul after 30.7 °C 57 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
24 Jul after 29.3 °C 57 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jul after 29.0 °C 57 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jul 2024
After · 22 Jul 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 13 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
131415161718
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 15 July 2024 and 15 July 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 186 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Çeşme (186 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.9 °C, humidity dropped to 43 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.