Burned area
satellite only15,860ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 26 January 2022
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Gündoğmuş fire, July 2021 Gündoğmuş, Alanya
Out · last detection 10 Aug 2021, 00:37 UTC
The fire started on 29 July 2021 in Gündoğmuş, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 15,860 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 2th largest in Antalya since 2016 (of 26 with a page). Number 3 in Türkiye in 2021, of 138.
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Duration by satellite
with caveats13days
29 Jul 2021 to 10 Aug 2021: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 10 Aug 2021, 00:37 UTC
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According to the press and agencies we checked, it was declared over on 6 August 2021.
Start
satellite only29 Jul 2021
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 29 Jul 2021
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only886
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 357 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 29 Jul 2021 – 10 Aug 2021
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only3,519MW
Total radiative power on 1 August 2021; hotspots that day: 281.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 1 Aug 2021
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model49.2FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 5.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 29 Jul 2021, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model36.6°C · 23% RH
High of 36.6 °C and minimum humidity of 23% on 4 August 2021; gusts of 51 km/h on 29 July 2021.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 29 Jul 2021 – 10 Aug 2021
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed pressCross-check with press and agencies publishedCNN Türk · Anadolu Ajansı · Cumhuriyet
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 15,860 ha
- Dates
- 29 Jul 2021 – 10 Aug 2021
- Name
- Gündoğmuş
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/gundogmus-2021-07?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire gundogmus-2021-07.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-29 | 6 | 141 | 34.3 | 23.3 | 20 | 16 | 51.1 | 0 | 49.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-07-30 | 98 | 2,054 | 35.4 | 23.3 | 19 | 11.8 | 43.6 | 0 | 41.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-07-31 | 213 | 3,110 | 35.3 | 24.4 | 21 | 12.5 | 47.2 | 0 | 47.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-01 | 281 | 3,519 | 35.2 | 23.5 | 22 | 10.6 | 36.7 | 0 | 41.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-02 | 224 | 3,319 | 35.6 | 22.7 | 21 | 10.7 | 36.4 | 0 | 43.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-03 | 22 | 955 | 36.4 | 24.7 | 22 | 11.7 | 40.3 | 0 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-04 | 8 | 37 | 36.6 | 23.9 | 23 | 10.2 | 34.2 | 0 | 42.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-05 | 20 | 190 | 34.9 | 24.6 | 27 | 9.5 | 30.2 | 0.8 | 39.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-06 | 11 | 139 | 34.1 | 23.6 | 33 | 9.5 | 36.7 | 0.4 | 31.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-07 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 21.4 | 46 | 14.4 | 49.7 | 8 | 12.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2021-08-08 | 2 | 138 | 31.2 | 20.5 | 38 | 9.2 | 33.5 | 0 | 3.8 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2021-08-09 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 21.9 | 38 | 9.4 | 32.4 | 0 | 14.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2021-08-10 | 1 | 1 | 32.6 | 21.9 | 29 | 11.6 | 40 | 0 | 24.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 32.6 | 21.1 | 27 | 11.1 | 40 | 0 | 27.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 30.7 | 22 | 36 | 10.5 | 35.6 | 0.1 | 27.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 31.8 | 21.9 | 33 | 11.5 | 40.3 | 0.2 | 29.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 32.5 | 22 | 29 | 11.8 | 43.2 | 0 | 32.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 21.8 | 26 | 11.2 | 36.4 | 0 | 30.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 32.8 | 19.8 | 23 | 9.7 | 36 | 0 | 32.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 31.8 | 20 | 29 | 10.4 | 38.2 | 0 | 36.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 30.6 | 19.7 | 32 | 10 | 36 | 0.7 | 33.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-08-19 | 0 | 0 | 30.9 | 20.6 | 41 | 7.9 | 31.7 | 1.2 | 24.6 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 15,860ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 13days
- 29 Jul 2021 – 10 Aug 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 29 Jul
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 886
- in a single hotspot: 357 MW
- Danger at start
- 49
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 1.2GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
29 Jul10 Aug
10 Aug 2021
How it evolved, day by day
29 Jul
1 Aug
4 Aug
8 Aug
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
37°high
51km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 19 Aug.
This area had burned before
0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 24 ha in 2020.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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15,861 ha reached on 29 Jul10 %
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Alanya 364,180 inhabitants · 17.3 km from the centre7 ha0.0 %
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
- Coniferous forest47 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland34 %
- Mixed forest9.9 %
- Agricultural areas8.0 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub0.8 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Gündoğmuş yangını · Ortakonuş yangını · Manavgat ve Gündoğmuş yangınları
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 6 August 2021
Sources
- SON DAKİKA... Pakdemirli: Manavgat ve Gündoğmuş yangınları kontrol altına alındı — CNN Türk, 6 August 2021
- Manavgat, Alanya, Akseki ve Gündoğmuş'taki orman yangınlarına havadan ve karadan müdahale ediliyor — Anadolu Ajansı, 4 August 2021
- Alevler Gündoğmuş'a yayılıyor: Belediye Başkanı Özeren'den 'Batı Torosları kaybederiz' uyarısı — Cumhuriyet, 2 August 2021
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)
Started with Strong wind: 28 % of the area in Türkiye
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul | 34.3 °C | 20 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 30 Jul | 35.4 °C | 19 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 31 Jul | 35.3 °C | 21 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 1 Aug | 35.2 °C | 22 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 2 Aug | 35.6 °C | 21 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Aug | 36.4 °C | 22 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 4 Aug | 36.6 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 5 Aug | 34.9 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.8 mm | Very high 39 |
| 6 Aug | 34.1 °C | 33 % | 37 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 31 |
| 7 Aug | 28.6 °C | 46 % | 50 km/h | 8.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 8 Aug | 31.2 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 9 Aug | 32.3 °C | 38 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 10 Aug | 32.6 °C | 29 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 11 Aug after | 32.6 °C | 27 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 12 Aug after | 30.7 °C | 36 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 27 |
| 13 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 33 % | 40 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 29 |
| 14 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 29 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 15 Aug after | 32.0 °C | 26 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 16 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 17 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 29 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 18 Aug after | 30.6 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 33 |
| 19 Aug after | 30.9 °C | 41 % | 32 km/h | 1.2 mm | High 25 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 49.2, a minimum humidity of 20% and 5 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
49.2
Minimum humidity
20 %
Days without rain
5
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Gündoğmuş fire, July 2021
15,860 ha
13 days
FWI 49.2
Min. humidity 20 %
Akşehir fire, August 2024
195 ha
1 day
FWI 44.8
Min. humidity 21 %
193 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.3 mm on 23 Aug.
Kumluca fire, September 2026
397 ha
2 days
FWI 43.1
Min. humidity 20 %
153 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 14 Sept.
Alanya fire, July 2026
972 ha
2 days
FWI 50.2
Min. humidity 27 %
44 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 3 Aug.
Alanya fire, June 2017
2,085 ha
2 days
FWI 40.9
Min. humidity 19 %
43 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.9 mm on 6 Jul.
Aksu fire, September 2017
375 ha
1 day
FWI 43.1
Min. humidity 18 %
118 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 277 ha
- median area
- 14 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 10 of 21 had it)
It was 57.3 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 13 days, against 2 days.
None of its 21 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 11 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
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 it ended
1.2 mmfirst rain
19 Aug9 days after it ended
51km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 10 Aug, and on 19 Aug 1.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 10 of 21, with a median of 1.8 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
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.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 22 Jul 2021
After · 17 Aug 2021
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 August 2021 the air beside the fire reached 66 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 34: 2.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak66 µg/m³
Days over the guideline9 days
PM10212 µg/m³
WHO 15
27 Jul31 Jul4 Aug8 Aug12 Aug
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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 · 886Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Gündoğmuş fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2021 and 10 August 2021: 13 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 15,860 hectares (158.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Gündoğmuş (15,861 ha, 10 %); Alanya (7 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Gündoğmuş and came within 1.1 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 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 21. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 277 ha; 14 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 21 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 11 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.8 mm.
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
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 886 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 3 confirmed sources.
- 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.