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Pervari fire, 19 August 2016 Pervari, Eruh

Out · last detection 21 Aug 2016, 09:09 UTC

The fire started on 19 August 2016 in Pervari, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 682 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 5th largest in Siirt since 2016 (of 43 with a page). Number 48 in Türkiye in 2016, of 223.

The power measured by the satellite is low (7.4 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
682ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
19 Aug 2016 – 21 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
19 Aug
2016
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 7 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
62MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Aug21 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

1921

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
39km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 58 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. Pervari 32,128 inhabitants · 27.3 km from the town where it started
    539 ha reached on 19 Aug
    0.3 %
  2. Eruh 20,513 inhabitants · 11.2 km from the town
    143 ha reached on 19 Aug
    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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland76 %
  • Other natural land23 %
  • Coniferous forest0.6 %

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)
19 Aug 35.2 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Aug 35.6 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Aug 35.9 °C 14 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Aug after 35.4 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
23 Aug after 34.6 °C 14 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
24 Aug after 35.0 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
25 Aug after 34.5 °C 15 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
26 Aug after 34.1 °C 16 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
27 Aug after 36.0 °C 17 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
28 Aug after 35.8 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
29 Aug after 35.3 °C 16 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
30 Aug after 35.9 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
31 Aug after 35.3 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Aug 2016
After · 28 Aug 2016

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 19 August 2016 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 29: 1.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak40 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM1046 µg/m³
1718192021222324
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 · 11Every 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 Pervari fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 19 August 2016 and 21 August 2016: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 682 hectares (6.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Pervari (539 ha, 0.3 %); Eruh (143 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.2 km of Eruh. 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 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.