Kaş fire, June 2021 Kaş
The fire started on 26 June 2021 in Kaş, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 121 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 24th largest in Antalya since 2016 (of 26 with a page). Number 126 in Türkiye in 2021, of 138.
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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
- 121ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 26 Jun 2021 – 26 Jun 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 26 Jun
- 2021
- Danger at start
- 33
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 3 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
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122 ha0.1 %
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
- Coniferous forest75 %
- Agricultural areas17 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub8.3 %
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 | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jun | 37.3 °C | 19 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 27 Jun after | 36.8 °C | 18 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 28 Jun after | 36.3 °C | 21 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 29 Jun after | 37.2 °C | 16 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Jun after | 36.9 °C | 20 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 1 Jul after | 38.7 °C | 16 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 2 Jul after | 36.4 °C | 20 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 3 Jul after | 33.0 °C | 31 % | 42 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 36 |
| 4 Jul after | 33.3 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 5 Jul after | 31.7 °C | 23 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 6 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 29 % | 43 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 36 |
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 27 June 2021 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.0 times the WHO daily 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)
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kaş fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 26 June 2021 and 26 June 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 121 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Kaş (122 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 25.3 km of Kaş. 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 37.3 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 35 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- 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.