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Pervari fire, July 2024 Pervari

Out · last measured on 6 Jul 2024

The fire started on 6 July 2024 in Pervari, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 183 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 30th largest in Siirt since 2016 (of 43 with a page). Number 157 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
183ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
6 Jul 2024 – 6 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
6 Jul
2024
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

36°high
40km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 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 · 26.8 km from the town where it started
    183 ha
    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

  • Mixed forest94 %
  • Other natural land6.5 %

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)
6 Jul 36.3 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
7 Jul after 33.8 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
8 Jul after 33.5 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Jul after 34.2 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Jul after 33.7 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Jul after 35.6 °C 19 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Jul after 36.1 °C 10 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
13 Jul after 35.7 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Jul after 35.9 °C 17 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Jul after 33.1 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Jul after 34.8 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Jun 2024
After · 13 Jul 2024

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 8 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1058 µg/m³
Optical depth0.50
456789
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Pervari fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 July 2024 and 6 July 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 183 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Pervari (183 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 26.8 km of Pervari. 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 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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.