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Çine fire, July 2026 Çine

Out · last measured on 18 Jul 2026

The fire started on 18 July 2026 in Çine, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,816 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the largest fire in Aydın since 2016 (of 15 with a page). Number 5 in Türkiye in 2026, of 109.

Burnt area
2,816ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
18 Jul 2026 – 18 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
18 Jul
2026
Heat detections
77
in a single hotspot: 84 MW
Danger at start
43
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul18 Jul

The weather it burned in

34°high
46km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 41 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Çine 49,760 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town where it started
    2,821 ha reached on 30 Jul
    3.2 %

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

  • Coniferous forest44 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland26 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub18 %
  • Agricultural areas13 %

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)
18 Jul 33.9 °C 20 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Jul after 34.3 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Jul after 34.1 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Jul after 34.5 °C 20 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
22 Jul after 34.4 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Jul after 31.8 °C 31 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Jul after 28.2 °C 25 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
25 Jul after 25.2 °C 40 % 45 km/h 0.7 mm High 32
26 Jul after 28.4 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Jul after 31.7 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
28 Jul after 33.0 °C 23 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Jul 2026
After · 25 Jul 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 20 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 9 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak9 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1012 µg/m³
Optical depth0.34
161718192021
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)

Detections table · 77Every 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 Çine fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 18 July 2026 and 18 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,816 hectares (28.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Çine (2,821 ha, 3.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.6 km of Çine. 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 33.9 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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.