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Menderes fire, July 2023 Menderes

Out · last detection 10 Jul 2023, 11:54 UTC

The fire started on 10 July 2023 in Menderes, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 416 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 20th largest in İzmir since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 14 in Türkiye in 2023, of 73.

Burnt area
416ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
10 Jul 2023 – 10 Jul 2023
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
10 Jul
2023
Heat detections
14
in a single hotspot: 417 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jul10 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

10

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
56km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 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. Menderes 104,147 inhabitants · 6.2 km from the town where it started
    417 ha reached on 10 Jul
    0.5 %

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

  • Coniferous forest78 %
  • Agricultural areas22 %

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)
10 Jul 33.6 °C 22 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Jul after 34.8 °C 24 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Jul after 36.4 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Jul after 38.3 °C 25 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Jul after 40.5 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Jul after 40.7 °C 23 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Jul after 38.8 °C 18 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 Jul after 38.6 °C 23 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
18 Jul after 37.5 °C 23 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
19 Jul after 39.5 °C 16 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
20 Jul after 39.4 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Jul 2023
After · 17 Jul 2023

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 13 July 2023 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1029 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
8910111213
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 · 14Every 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 Menderes fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 10 July 2023 and 10 July 2023: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 416 hectares (4.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Menderes (417 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.2 km of Menderes. 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 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class 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.