How long did the Hüyük fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 September 2026 to 26 September 2026 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 September 2026 to 4 September 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,930 hectares (19.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hüyük (1,634 ha, 3.7 %); Beyşehir (297 ha, 0.1 %).

Is the Hüyük fire still active?

No fire detections since 26 Sept 2026, 10:32 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 10.8 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 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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.

TR · Türkiye · 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

Hüyük fire, 4 September 2026 Hüyük, Beyşehir

Out · last detection 26 Sept 2026, 10:32 UTC

The fire started on 4 September 2026 in Hüyük, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,930 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Konya since 2016 (of 24 with a page). Number 7 in Türkiye in 2026, of 106.

Burnt area: 1,930ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 23days; 4 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 4 Sept; 2026
Heat detections: 66; in a single hotspot: 65 MW
Danger at start: 42; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 1.4GW; sum of detected power

Play back 26 Sept 2026

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Sept26 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

30°high

27km/h · peak gust

17%lowest humidity

It had gone 40 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 45 ha in 2020, 33 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

Hüyük 16,073 inhabitants · 10.8 km from the town where it started

1,634 ha reached on 4 Sept

3.7 %
Beyşehir 73,768 inhabitants · 16.0 km from the town

297 ha reached on 7 Sept

0.1 %

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

Agricultural areas97 %
Other natural land3.3 %

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	Danger (FWI)
4 Sept	30.0 °C	17 %	27 km/h	Very high 42
5 Sept	29.2 °C	21 %	34 km/h	Very high 46
6 Sept	29.4 °C	21 %	31 km/h	Very high 46
7 Sept	25.0 °C	18 %	41 km/h	Extreme 52
8 Sept	25.6 °C	23 %	32 km/h	Very high 43
9 Sept	26.1 °C	23 %	16 km/h	High 35
10 Sept	29.1 °C	14 %	12 km/h	High 36
11 Sept	29.8 °C	19 %	16 km/h	Very high 38
12 Sept	30.2 °C	10 %	12 km/h	Very high 38
13 Sept	31.2 °C	17 %	45 km/h	Extreme 61
14 Sept	27.6 °C	25 %	31 km/h	Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 28 Aug 2026

After · 3 Oct 2026

Before After

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 6 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1016 µg/m³

Optical depth0.30

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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 · 66Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Hüyük fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 September 2026 to 26 September 2026 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 September 2026 to 4 September 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,930 hectares (19.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hüyük (1,634 ha, 3.7 %); Beyşehir (297 ha, 0.1 %).
Is the Hüyük fire still active?: No fire detections since 26 Sept 2026, 10:32 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 10.8 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 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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.

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