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Korkut fire, September 2017 Korkut ilçesi · Korkut, Güroymak

Out · last detection 7 Sept 2017, 09:46 UTC

The fire started on 6 September 2017 in Korkut, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 242 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 12th largest in Muş since 2016 (of 35 with a page). Number 47 in Türkiye in 2017, of 98.

The power measured by the satellite is low (5.4 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
242ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
6 Sept 2017 – 7 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
6 Sept
2017
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
66
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
12MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Sept 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Sept7 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

67

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
66km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 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. Korkut Korkut ilçesi 25,817 inhabitants · 19.7 km from the town where it started
    242 ha reached on 3 Sept
    0.3 %
  2. Güroymak 47,742 inhabitants · 8.4 km from the town
    0 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 land92 %
  • Agricultural areas7.8 %

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)
6 Sept 33.7 °C 13 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
7 Sept 29.4 °C 18 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
8 Sept after 30.2 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
9 Sept after 33.3 °C 13 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Sept after 34.5 °C 12 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Sept after 33.6 °C 13 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Sept after 33.6 °C 13 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
13 Sept after 33.1 °C 13 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Sept after 33.9 °C 17 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
15 Sept after 34.7 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
16 Sept after 32.8 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
17 Sept after 33.1 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Aug 2017
After · 14 Sept 2017

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 1 September 2017 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1026 µg/m³
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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 · 7Every 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 Korkut fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 September 2017 and 7 September 2017: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 242 hectares (2.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Korkut (242 ha, 0.3 %); Güroymak (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 8.4 km of Güroymak. 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 33.7 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 66 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, class 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.