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Patnos fire, October 2025 Panos · Patnos

Out · last detection 8 Oct 2025, 10:21 UTC

The fire started on 8 October 2025 in Patnos, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 119 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 28th largest in Ağrı since 2016 (of 33 with a page). Number 152 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.

The power measured by the satellite is low (7.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
119ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
8 Oct 2025 – 8 Oct 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
8 Oct
2025
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 8 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
8MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Oct8 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

8

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

The weather it burned in

24°high
60km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.7 mm on 12 Oct.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Patnos Panos 122,833 inhabitants · 15.1 km from the town where it started
    119 ha reached on 8 Oct
    0.1 %

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 areas80 %
  • Other natural land20 %

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)
8 Oct 24.5 °C 19 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Oct after 21.1 °C 29 % 56 km/h 0.1 mm High 37
10 Oct after 15.2 °C 30 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
11 Oct after 16.3 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Oct after 17.2 °C 27 % 46 km/h 3.7 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Oct 2025
After · 15 Oct 2025

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 9 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1033 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
67891011
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 · 1Every 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 Patnos fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 8 October 2025 and 8 October 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 119 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Patnos (119 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.1 km of Patnos. 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 24.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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.