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Ceylanpınar fire, November 2026 Ceylanpınar, Kızıltepe

Dying down · last detection 11 Nov 2026, 11:08 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 9 November 2026 in Ceylanpınar, Türkiye. It has been active for 3 days, with 11 heat detections and an area with fire of about 154 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 2 municipalities.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Is it still active?

No detections since 11 Nov 2026, 11:08 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.

Area with fire
≈ 154ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
3days
9 Nov 2026 – 11 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
9 Nov
2026
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Danger at start
5
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
33MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Nov11 Nov
11 Nov 2026

How it evolved, day by day

9 Nov 2026 · 0 MW · 0 10 Nov 2026 · 4 MW · 1 11 Nov 2026 · 61 MW · 10
9 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov

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

The weather it burned in

16°high
41km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

What happened to each town

  1. Ceylanpınar 87,684 inhabitants · 9.3 km from the centre where it started
    140 ha reached on 9 Nov
    0.1 %
  2. Kızıltepe 275,460 inhabitants · 35.2 km from the centre
    14 ha reached on 11 Nov
    0.0 %

Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. 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.

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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
9 Nov 14.6 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
10 Nov 14.3 °C 24 % 16 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 4
11 Nov 15.9 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.1 mm Low 6

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 4.9, a minimum humidity of 22% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 4.

FWI at the start 4.9
Minimum humidity 22 %
Days without rain 1
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Gölbaşı fire, December 2025
147 ha 1 day FWI 6.3 Min. humidity 28 % 247 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 4.0 mm on 26 Dec.

What happened to them

Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 4. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Nov 2026
After · 11 Nov 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 11Every 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 Ceylanpınar fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (3 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 154 hectares with fire (1.5 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ceylanpınar (140 ha, 0.1 %); Kızıltepe (14 ha, 0.0 %).
Is the Ceylanpınar fire still active?
No fire detections since 11 Nov 2026, 11:08 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Ceylanpınar and came within 9.3 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 15.9 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class Low.
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

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How we know this
  • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 154 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
  • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 11 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.

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.