Derecik fire, 24 June 2018 Derecik
The fire started on 24 June 2018 in Derecik, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 147 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 75th largest in Hakkâri since 2016 (of 111 with a page). Number 69 in Türkiye in 2018, of 104.
The power measured by the satellite is low (15.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 147ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 24 Jun 2018 – 25 Jun 2018
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 24 Jun
- 2018
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 15 MW
- Danger at start
- 35
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 18MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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146 ha reached on 24 Jun0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. 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.
What burned
- Other natural land100 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun | 34.5 °C | 18 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 25 Jun | 34.7 °C | 18 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 26 Jun after | 33.8 °C | 19 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 27 Jun after | 35.7 °C | 18 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Jun after | 38.7 °C | 12 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 29 Jun after | 36.5 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Jun after | 34.1 °C | 16 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 1 Jul after | 36.0 °C | 9 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 2 Jul after | 41.7 °C | 11 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 3 Jul after | 40.4 °C | 11 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 4 Jul after | 39.0 °C | 15 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 5 Jul after | 38.6 °C | 18 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
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 24 June 2018 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 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)
Detections table · 6Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,649 haŞemdinliMay 2021 · 8 days · 27 km away
- 1,473 haAl-AmadiyaJuly 2019 · 4 days · 31 km away
- 1,470 haAl-ZibarSeptember 2021 · 6 days · 31 km away
- 1,426 haAl-Amadiya12 August 2016 · 5 days · 34 km away
- 1,394 haAl-Amadiya10 August 2019 · 3 days · 35 km away
- 1,725 haAl-AmadiyaSeptember 2020 · 5 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Derecik fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 24 June 2018 and 25 June 2018: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 147 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Derecik (146 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Derecik and came within 9.8 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 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 6 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.