Manavgat fire, July 2021 Manavgat, Akseki, İbradi
The fire started on 28 July 2021 in Manavgat, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 54,769 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the largest fire in Antalya since 2016 (of 26 with a page). The largest in Türkiye in 2021, of 138.
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- Burnt area
- 54,769ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 10days
- 28 Jul 2021 – 6 Aug 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- districts
- Started on
- 28 Jul
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 2,615
- in a single hotspot: 1,031 MW
- Danger at start
- 64
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 7.6GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 35 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.1 mm on 7 Aug.
This area had burned before
0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 49 ha in 2020.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Manavgat where it started43,333 ha reached on 28 Jul20 %
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Akseki 13,084 inhabitants · 18.1 km from the centre7,362 ha reached on 28 Jul4.3 %
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4,073 ha reached on 1 Aug5.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Coniferous forest47 %
- Agricultural areas26 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
- Other natural land4.3 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub1.7 %
- Other land cover0.6 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Büyük Manavgat yangını · Antalya Manavgat Orman Yangını · Manavgat wildfire
- According to the sources, several fires that ended up merging:
- Yeniköy (Manavgat) 28 July 2021
- Sarılar (Manavgat) 28 July 2021
- Baraj (zona de la presa, Manavgat) 28 July 2021
- Gebece (Manavgat) 28 July 2021
- Official area reported: 59,985 ha (the satellite measured 54,769 ha)
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 6 August 2021
Sources
- Manavgat'ta 4 Ayrı Noktada Orman Yangını Çıktı — Valiliği de Antalya (gobierno provincial), 28 July 2021 · official source
- Burned Forest Area Detection in the Manavgat Forest Fire Using NBR and dNBR Indices — Zenodo (estudio académico), 30 December 2024
- Turkish town Manavgat recovers from 2021's deadly fire — Daily Sabah, 28 July 2022
- Tarihin en büyük yangını kâbusları oldu! Manavgat'ta yeni evler yükselmeye başladı — Hürriyet, 13 February 2022
Official figures are measured differently from satellite ones and sometimes cover only part of the fire.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul | 39.5 °C | 10 % | 69 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 29 Jul | 40.3 °C | 7 % | 88 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 105 |
| 30 Jul | 40.1 °C | 8 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 67 |
| 31 Jul | 40.8 °C | 10 % | 72 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 72 |
| 1 Aug | 40.6 °C | 10 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 2 Aug | 41.0 °C | 11 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 3 Aug | 41.6 °C | 10 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 4 Aug | 40.5 °C | 12 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 85 |
| 5 Aug | 39.7 °C | 13 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 6 Aug | 37.1 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 7 Aug after | 30.4 °C | 50 % | 55 km/h | 7.1 mm | Low 6 |
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 30 July 2021 the air beside the fire reached 76 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 30: 2.0 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)
Detections table · 2,615Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Manavgat fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 28 July 2021 and 6 August 2021: 10 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 54,769 hectares (547.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Manavgat (43,333 ha, 20 %); Akseki (7,362 ha, 4.3 %); İbradi (4,073 ha, 5.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 11.3 km of the centre of İbradi, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 41.6 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 88 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 105, class Very 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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. 2,615 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- 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.