ماطر fire, September 2026 ماطر
The fire started on 28 September 2026 in ماطر, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 109 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 38th largest in Bizerte since 2016 (of 39 with a page). Number 33 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
- 109ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 28 Sept 2026 – 1 Oct 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- delegations
- Started on
- 28 Sept
- 2026
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2023.
What happened to each town
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ماطر where it started109 ha0.2 %
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 areas53 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub45 %
- Other natural land1.8 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept | 29.6 °C | 39 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 29 Sept | 31.4 °C | 38 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 30 Sept | 30.5 °C | 41 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 1 Oct | 29.2 °C | 40 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 2 Oct after | 29.7 °C | 36 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 3 Oct after | 30.5 °C | 31 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 4 Oct after | 31.0 °C | 29 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 5 Oct after | 32.0 °C | 32 % | 31 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 30 |
| 6 Oct after | 33.3 °C | 31 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
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 1 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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)
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the ماطر fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 September 2026 to 1 October 2026 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 September 2026 to 28 September 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 109 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered ماطر (109 ha, 0.2 %).
- Is the ماطر fire still active?
- No fire detections since 1 October 2026. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 31.4 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class 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.