How long did the Korkut fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 23 August 2024 and 23 August 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 266 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Korkut (267 ha, 0.4 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.6 km of Korkut. 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 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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 · 2024-08-23 → 2024-08-23

Korkut fire, August 2024 Korkut ilçesi · Korkut

Out · last detection 24 Aug 2024, 10:05 UTC

The fire started on 23 August 2024 in Korkut, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 266 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Muş since 2016 (of 35 with a page). Number 99 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.1 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: 266ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 23 Aug 2024 – 23 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 23 Aug; 2024
Heat detections: 5; in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start: 45; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 55MW; sum of detected power

Play back 24 Aug 2024

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Aug23 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

2324

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

38km/h · peak gust

16%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 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

Korkut Korkut ilçesi 25,817 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town where it started

267 ha reached on 23 Aug

0.4 %

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 areas94 %
Other natural land6.1 %

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)
23 Aug	34.1 °C	16 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
24 Aug after	33.7 °C	16 %	47 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 48
25 Aug after	31.8 °C	20 %	58 km/h	0.6 mm	Very high 45
26 Aug after	30.4 °C	26 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
27 Aug after	32.5 °C	18 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
28 Aug after	33.1 °C	19 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
29 Aug after	33.3 °C	20 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
30 Aug after	33.1 °C	18 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
31 Aug after	33.2 °C	17 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
1 Sept after	33.0 °C	18 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
2 Sept after	31.2 °C	20 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 16 Aug 2024

After · 30 Aug 2024

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 22 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1031 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 · 5Every 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 Korkut fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 23 August 2024 and 23 August 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 266 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Korkut (267 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.6 km of Korkut. 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 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.

Where it burned