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ماطر fire, July 2026 ماطر

Out · last measured on 15 Jul 2026

The fire started on 15 July 2026 in ماطر, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 112 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 35th largest in Bizerte since 2016 (of 39 with a page). Number 30 in Tunisia in 2026, of 36.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
112ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Jul 2026 – 15 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
delegations
Started on
15 Jul
2026
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

38°high
30km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 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. ماطر where it started
    112 ha
    0.2 %

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 areas81 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub19 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.9 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

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)
15 Jul 38.4 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Jul after 38.6 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
17 Jul after 42.7 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48
18 Jul after 39.1 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
19 Jul after 41.9 °C 11 % 29 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 49
20 Jul after 40.4 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
21 Jul after 42.8 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.8 mm Extreme 53
22 Jul after 37.6 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
23 Jul after 38.0 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
24 Jul after 33.5 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
25 Jul after 37.7 °C 30 % 37 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.

Before · 8 Jul 2026
After · 22 Jul 2026

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 18 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1055 µg/m³
Optical depth0.44
131415161718
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the ماطر fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 July 2026 and 15 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 112 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered ماطر (112 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 30 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 Tunisia (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: 198

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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.