Burned area
satellite only592ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 5 November 2024
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TR · Türkiye · –
Merkezefendi fire, October 2024 Merkezefendi, Tavas
Out · last detection 29 Oct 2024, 11:07 UTC
The fire started on 24 October 2024 in Merkezefendi, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 592 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 3th largest in Denizli since 2016 (of 18 with a page). Number 32 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only6days
24 Oct 2024 to 29 Oct 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 29 Oct 2024, 11:07 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only24 Oct 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 24 Oct 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only83
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 37 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 24 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only155MW
Total radiative power on 27 October 2024; hotspots that day: 28.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 27 Oct 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model24.1FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 32.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 24 Oct 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model19.0°C · 16% RH
High of 19.0 °C and minimum humidity of 16% on 27 October 2024; gusts of 27 km/h on 29 October 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 24 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 592 ha
- Dates
- 24 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024
- Name
- Merkezefendi
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/merkezefendi-2024-10?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire merkezefendi-2024-10.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-24 | 5 | 153 | 18.6 | 1.9 | 19 | 6.4 | 22.3 | 0 | 24.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-25 | 15 | 68 | 17.5 | 1.6 | 20 | 6.3 | 20.9 | 0 | 24.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-26 | 9 | 55 | 17.8 | 1.3 | 22 | 6.5 | 23.8 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-27 | 28 | 155 | 19 | 0.4 | 16 | 6.6 | 19.8 | 0 | 22 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-28 | 25 | 99 | 18.4 | 0 | 17 | 5.5 | 19.4 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-29 | 1 | 3 | 18.7 | 1.8 | 13 | 9 | 27.4 | 0 | 30 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 3.9 | 20 | 8.6 | 26.3 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 16.4 | 1.7 | 29 | 8.2 | 26.6 | 0 | 27.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 17.7 | 2 | 23 | 7.6 | 21.2 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 17.9 | -0.1 | 26 | 8 | 18.7 | 0 | 23.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 16.8 | 1.2 | 26 | 9.7 | 31.3 | 0 | 26.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 1 | 33 | 7.5 | 23.4 | 0 | 22.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | -0.8 | 18 | 7.9 | 26.6 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-06 | 0 | 0 | 14.4 | -0.6 | 23 | 6.5 | 20.5 | 0 | 22.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-07 | 0 | 0 | 14 | -1.3 | 21 | 6.2 | 22.3 | 0 | 24.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-11-08 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | -1 | 17 | 6.4 | 20.9 | 0 | 24.8 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 592ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 6days
- 24 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 24 Oct
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 83
- in a single hotspot: 37 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 89MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
24 Oct29 Oct
29 Oct 2024
How it evolved, day by day
24 Oct
27 Oct
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
19°high
27km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity
It had gone 32 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.
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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569 ha reached on 24 Oct2.0 %
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Tavas 41,712 inhabitants · 13.4 km from the centre24 ha reached on 28 Oct0.0 %
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 forest53 %
- Mixed forest24 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland13 %
- Other natural land10 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct | 18.6 °C | 19 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 25 Oct | 17.5 °C | 20 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 26 Oct | 17.8 °C | 22 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Oct | 19.0 °C | 16 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 28 Oct | 18.4 °C | 17 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 29 Oct | 18.7 °C | 13 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 30 Oct after | 17.8 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 31 Oct after | 16.4 °C | 29 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 1 Nov after | 17.7 °C | 23 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 2 Nov after | 17.9 °C | 26 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 3 Nov after | 16.8 °C | 26 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 4 Nov after | 13.5 °C | 33 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 5 Nov after | 13.6 °C | 18 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 6 Nov after | 14.4 °C | 23 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 7 Nov after | 14.0 °C | 21 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 8 Nov after | 14.3 °C | 17 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 24.1, a minimum humidity of 19% and 32 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
24.1
Minimum humidity
19 %
Days without rain
32
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Merkezefendi fire, October 2024
592 ha
6 days
FWI 24.1
Min. humidity 19 %
Büyükorhan fire, November 2024
268 ha
1 day
FWI 22.8
Min. humidity 21 %
216 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 13 Nov.
Sandıklı fire, September 2023
137 ha
1 day
FWI 25.6
Min. humidity 20 %
123 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Çay fire, September 2024
852 ha
7 days
FWI 20.3
Min. humidity 19 %
178 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Bayındır fire, July 2017
905 ha
2 days
FWI 36.2
Min. humidity 18 %
125 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.1 mm on 27 Jul.
Şuhut fire, July 2024
125 ha
1 day
FWI 29.0
Min. humidity 20 %
156 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 21.2 mm on 25 Jul.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 187 ha
- median area
- 10 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 2.9 mm
- rain at the end (median; 16 of 21 had it)
It was 3.2 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 6 days, against 2 days.
Only 5 of its 21 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 5 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.9 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
27km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 29 Oct, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 21, with a median of 2.9 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 17 Oct 2024
After · 5 Nov 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 27 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 37 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak37 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM1052 µg/m³
Optical depth0.12
WHO 15
22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct31 Oct
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 · 83Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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 Merkezefendi fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 24 October 2024 to 29 October 2024 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 25 October 2024 to 27 October 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 592 hectares (5.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Merkezefendi (569 ha, 2.0 %); Tavas (24 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Merkezefendi and came within 8.3 km of its centre. 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 19.0 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 21. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 187 ha; 10 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 5 of its 21 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 5 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.9 mm.
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.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 25 October 2024 to 27 October 2024. 83 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- 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.