Çeşme fire, July 2025 Çeşme, Urla
The fire started on 2 July 2025 in Çeşme, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 9,919 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the largest fire in İzmir since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 2 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.
- Burnt area
- 9,919ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 2 Jul 2025 – 5 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 2 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 477
- in a single hotspot: 687 MW
- Danger at start
- 115
- Very extreme · FWI index
- Energy released
- 23.7GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 36 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
11% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 46 ha in 2018, 167 ha in 2019, 23 ha in 2020, 12 ha in 2021, 740 ha in 2022, 114 ha in 2023, 9 ha in 2024.
- 673 ha Çeşme fire, July 2022 740 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 167 ha Çeşme fire, August 2019 170 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 113 ha Çeşme fire, July 2023 123 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9 ha Çeşme fire, June 2024 275 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Çeşme where it started7,669 ha reached on 2 Jul28 %
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Urla 66,360 inhabitants · 24.6 km from the town2,254 ha reached on 2 Jul3.3 %
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 land47 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub38 %
- Agricultural areas8.7 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.3 %
- Artificial surfaces1.9 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Çeşme-Ildır yangını · İzmir Çeşme wildfire · Çeşme-Urla yangını
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 4 July 2025
Sources
- Çeşme'de yangın 3. gününde büyük ölçüde kontrol altına alındı — Ayuntamiento de Çeşme, 4 July 2025 · official source
- NERO Fire Brief: İzmir, Çeşme Wildfire – Türkiye, July 2025 — NERO Network, 4 July 2025
- Major wildfire near Çeşme, İzmir Province, Turkey leaves at least 2 dead — The Watchers, 4 July 2025
- Firefighters master one Turkey wildfire as two others rage on — France 24 (AFP), 4 July 2025
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jul | 32.6 °C | 15 % | 75 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 115 |
| 3 Jul | 32.3 °C | 17 % | 68 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 99 |
| 4 Jul | 33.5 °C | 19 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 69 |
| 5 Jul | 35.4 °C | 15 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 6 Jul after | 35.4 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 7 Jul after | 34.6 °C | 26 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 8 Jul after | 36.4 °C | 21 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 9 Jul after | 37.2 °C | 22 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 10 Jul after | 34.1 °C | 31 % | 56 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 11 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 29 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 12 Jul after | 32.5 °C | 34 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 13 Jul after | 35.3 °C | 24 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 14 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 22 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 75 |
| 15 Jul after | 36.2 °C | 27 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 6 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 63 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 36: 2.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 477Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Çeşme fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 July 2025 and 5 July 2025: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 9,919 hectares (99.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Çeşme (7,669 ha, 28 %); Urla (2,254 ha, 3.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 24.6 km of Urla. 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 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 75 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 115, class Very extreme.
- 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.