Midyat fire, June 2024 Midyat
The fire started on 26 June 2024 in Midyat, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 252 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 87th largest in Mardin since 2016 (of 131 with a page). Number 106 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.
We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 252ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 26 Jun 2024 – 26 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 26 Jun
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 75
- Very extreme · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 51 ha in 2016.
What happened to each town
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253 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
- Other natural land63 %
- Agricultural areas37 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jun | 37.8 °C | 12 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 75 |
| 27 Jun after | 34.7 °C | 10 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 74 |
| 28 Jun after | 36.3 °C | 9 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 29 Jun after | 37.4 °C | 9 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 30 Jun after | 36.7 °C | 13 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 1 Jul after | 34.7 °C | 17 % | 40 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 49 |
| 2 Jul after | 33.7 °C | 17 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Jul after | 34.7 °C | 17 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 4 Jul after | 37.7 °C | 14 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 5 Jul after | 38.7 °C | 9 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 6 Jul after | 38.5 °C | 10 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
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 24 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 16 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 Midyat fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 26 June 2024 and 26 June 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 252 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Midyat (253 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.2 km of Midyat. 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 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 75, 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
Satellite cross-check
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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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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.