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Hüyük fire, August 2020 Hüyük, Beyşehir

Out · last detection 29 Aug 2020, 10:05 UTC

The fire started on 29 August 2020 in Hüyük, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 215 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 12th largest in Konya since 2016 (of 24 with a page). Number 106 in Türkiye in 2020, of 212.

The power measured by the satellite is low (9.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
215ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
29 Aug 2020 – 30 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
29 Aug
2020
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Energy released
16MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Aug30 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

29

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
19km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months 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. Hüyük 16,073 inhabitants · 12.6 km from the town where it started
    181 ha reached on 29 Aug
    0.4 %
  2. Beyşehir 73,768 inhabitants · 18.1 km from the town
    34 ha
    0.0 %

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 land74 %
  • Agricultural areas26 %

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)
29 Aug 30.6 °C 17 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
30 Aug 31.6 °C 15 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
31 Aug after 31.3 °C 14 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
1 Sept after 30.1 °C 21 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
2 Sept after 30.4 °C 26 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
3 Sept after 31.4 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Sept after 31.4 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
5 Sept after 24.5 °C 46 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
6 Sept after 26.5 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
7 Sept after 28.0 °C 26 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Sept after 29.5 °C 23 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
9 Sept after 26.0 °C 35 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Aug 2020
After · 6 Sept 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 2 September 2020 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1040 µg/m³
272829303112
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 · 2Every 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 Hüyük fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 August 2020 and 30 August 2020: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 215 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hüyük (181 ha, 0.4 %); Beyşehir (34 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 12.6 km of Hüyük. 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 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 19 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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.