Gelendost fire, July 2026 Gelendost
The fire started on 28 July 2026 in Gelendost, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 102 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.
- Burnt area
- 102ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 28 Jul 2026 – 28 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 28 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 48 MW
- Danger at start
- 33
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 40 ha in 2020, 65 ha in 2021, 28 ha in 2024, 26 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 82 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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102 ha reached on 30 Jul0.2 %
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
- 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul | 29.6 °C | 26 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 29 Jul after | 27.5 °C | 26 % | 61 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 30 Jul after | 26.8 °C | 27 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 31 Jul after | 26.5 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 1 Aug after | 29.6 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 2 Aug after | 31.0 °C | 21 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 3 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 20 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 4 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 22 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 5 Aug after | 32.4 °C | 23 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Aug after | 32.6 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 7 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 21 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
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 29 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Gelendost fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 28 July 2026 and 28 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 102 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Gelendost (102 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 10.7 km of Gelendost. 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 29.6 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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
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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.