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Haliliye fire, 5 July 2020 Haliliye

Out · last measured on 7 Jul 2020

The fire started on 5 July 2020 in Haliliye, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 301 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 15th largest in Şanlıurfa since 2016 (of 45 with a page). Number 83 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
301ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
5 Jul 2020 – 7 Jul 2020
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
5 Jul
2020
Danger at start
56
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

41°high
46km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 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

  1. Haliliye 376,251 inhabitants · 49.6 km from the town where it started
    302 ha
    0.2 %

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 land99 %
  • Agricultural areas0.7 %

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)
5 Jul 40.3 °C 9 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
6 Jul 41.2 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
7 Jul 39.7 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
8 Jul after 36.6 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
9 Jul after 39.0 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
10 Jul after 39.3 °C 12 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
11 Jul after 38.7 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
12 Jul after 40.1 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
13 Jul after 38.1 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
14 Jul after 37.6 °C 17 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
15 Jul after 39.1 °C 9 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
16 Jul after 40.5 °C 6 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
17 Jul after 39.6 °C 10 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Jun 2020
After · 14 Jul 2020

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 7 July 2020 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1034 µg/m³
345678910
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Haliliye fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 5 July 2020 and 7 July 2020: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 301 hectares (3.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Haliliye (302 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 49.6 km of Haliliye. 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 41.2 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 73, class Very extreme.
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.