Çınar fire, 8 June 2020 Çınar
The fire started on 8 June 2020 in Çınar, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 277 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 49th largest in Diyarbakır since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 90 in Türkiye in 2020, of 212.
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
- 277ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 8 Jun 2020 – 8 Jun 2020
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 8 Jun
- 2020
- Danger at start
- 40
- Very high · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
57% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 159 ha in 2016.
What happened to each town
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277 ha0.1 %
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 land95 %
- Agricultural areas4.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun | 34.3 °C | 13 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 9 Jun after | 34.5 °C | 16 % | 44 km/h | 0.7 mm | Very high 41 |
| 10 Jun after | 37.4 °C | 5 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 11 Jun after | 31.9 °C | 14 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 12 Jun after | 30.6 °C | 20 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 13 Jun after | 28.6 °C | 19 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 14 Jun after | 30.5 °C | 14 % | 52 km/h | 0.3 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 15 Jun after | 31.6 °C | 19 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 16 Jun after | 34.7 °C | 13 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 17 Jun after | 35.7 °C | 15 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 18 Jun after | 34.8 °C | 14 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
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 9 June 2020 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 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)
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Çınar fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 8 June 2020 and 8 June 2020: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 277 hectares (2.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Çınar (277 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 16.7 km of Çınar. 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 34.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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.