How long did the Mobarakeh fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 July 2026 to 23 October 2026 (100 days). The perimeter dates it from 20 July 2026 to 22 October 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,021 hectares (10.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Mobarakeh (1,019 ha, 0.9 %).

Is the Mobarakeh fire still active?

No fire detections since 23 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 103, class Very extreme.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

IR · Iran · 2026-07-16 → 2026-10-23

Mobarakeh fire, July 2026 Mobarakeh

Dying down · last detection 23 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2026 in Mobarakeh, Iran, and satellites saw it burning for 100 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,021 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Number 15 in Iran in 2026, of 16.

Is it still active?

No detections since 23 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. 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.

Burnt area: 1,021ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 100days; 16 Jul 2026 – 23 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; counties
Started on: 16 Jul; 2026
Heat detections: 1,006; in a single hotspot: 83 MW
Danger at start: 49; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 7.5GW; sum of detected power

Play back 23 Oct 2026

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul23 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high

70km/h · peak gust

3%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

42% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 76 ha in 2020, 299 ha in 2021, 462 ha in 2022, 269 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 433 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Mobarakeh where it started

1,019 ha reached on 16 Jul

0.9 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS 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.

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)
16 Jul	34.5 °C	7 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
17 Jul	35.5 °C	7 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
18 Jul	36.7 °C	7 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
19 Jul	36.8 °C	8 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
20 Jul	38.0 °C	7 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
21 Jul	37.8 °C	9 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 73
22 Jul	36.2 °C	14 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 63
23 Jul	35.0 °C	15 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 68
24 Jul	35.5 °C	12 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
25 Jul	35.8 °C	12 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
26 Jul	37.0 °C	10 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
27 Jul	36.5 °C	8 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 89
28 Jul	35.5 °C	9 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 67
29 Jul	34.5 °C	8 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
30 Jul	32.8 °C	10 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 63
31 Jul	32.8 °C	12 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
1 Aug	32.8 °C	12 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
2 Aug	34.0 °C	10 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 55
3 Aug	34.5 °C	10 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 69
4 Aug	34.5 °C	12 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
5 Aug	35.3 °C	10 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
6 Aug	35.5 °C	9 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 64
7 Aug	34.6 °C	8 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 77
8 Aug	34.3 °C	11 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 68
9 Aug	35.7 °C	11 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 63
10 Aug	36.5 °C	12 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 67
11 Aug	37.2 °C	9 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 70
12 Aug	36.8 °C	10 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
13 Aug	35.8 °C	11 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
14 Aug	36.2 °C	11 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 66
15 Aug	37.4 °C	10 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 74
16 Aug	37.5 °C	9 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 71
17 Aug	37.0 °C	6 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 76
18 Aug	38.4 °C	6 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
19 Aug	38.0 °C	6 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 66
20 Aug	37.0 °C	6 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 68
21 Aug	37.3 °C	7 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 71
22 Aug	35.5 °C	12 %	56 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 87
23 Aug	34.9 °C	12 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
24 Aug	34.8 °C	9 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
25 Aug	34.6 °C	7 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
26 Aug	34.7 °C	5 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
27 Aug	35.2 °C	8 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
28 Aug	35.8 °C	7 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
29 Aug	35.5 °C	7 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
30 Aug	35.8 °C	6 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 70
31 Aug	35.6 °C	7 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 73
1 Sept	37.1 °C	3 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 70
2 Sept	36.1 °C	3 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
3 Sept	33.2 °C	11 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 66
4 Sept	32.6 °C	14 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
5 Sept	35.5 °C	11 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 68
6 Sept	35.7 °C	10 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 70
7 Sept	34.5 °C	8 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
8 Sept	33.8 °C	9 %	56 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 82
9 Sept	33.3 °C	8 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 75
10 Sept	33.0 °C	8 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
11 Sept	33.0 °C	12 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 66
12 Sept	32.2 °C	13 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
13 Sept	33.5 °C	7 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 63
14 Sept	32.4 °C	6 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
15 Sept	32.3 °C	9 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
16 Sept	34.0 °C	7 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
17 Sept	35.0 °C	4 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
18 Sept	33.4 °C	4 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
19 Sept	33.8 °C	7 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
20 Sept	33.6 °C	8 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 67
21 Sept	33.5 °C	5 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 88
22 Sept	33.1 °C	4 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
23 Sept	33.2 °C	6 %	12 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
24 Sept	33.2 °C	7 %	13 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
25 Sept	33.5 °C	8 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
26 Sept	33.0 °C	8 %	22 km/h	0.1 mm	Extreme 60
27 Sept	32.2 °C	9 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
28 Sept	32.1 °C	9 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 73
29 Sept	31.7 °C	10 %	70 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 103
30 Sept	30.7 °C	11 %	57 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 84
1 Oct	29.8 °C	15 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 67
2 Oct	30.8 °C	12 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 66
3 Oct	30.1 °C	14 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 77
4 Oct	28.8 °C	18 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
5 Oct	29.4 °C	16 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 9 Jul 2026

After · 23 Oct 2026

Before After

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 4 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 100 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 69: 4.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak100 µg/m³

Days over the guideline71 days

PM10426 µg/m³

Optical depth0.74

WHO 15

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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 · 1,006Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mobarakeh fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 July 2026 to 23 October 2026 (100 days). The perimeter dates it from 20 July 2026 to 22 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,021 hectares (10.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Mobarakeh (1,019 ha, 0.9 %).
Is the Mobarakeh fire still active?: No fire detections since 23 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 103, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (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: 125

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. 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 from each country’s official figure.