Şarköy fire, July 2025 Şarköy, Gelibolu
The fire started on 15 July 2025 in Şarköy, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 5,404 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
Number 6 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.
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- Burnt area
- 5,404ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 15 Jul 2025 – 17 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 15 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 258
- in a single hotspot: 437 MW
- Danger at start
- 59
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 4.7GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 45 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 50 ha in 2020.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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5,177 ha reached on 15 Jul10 %
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Gelibolu 44,174 inhabitants · 27.9 km from the town227 ha reached on 16 Jul0.3 %
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
- Coniferous forest75 %
- Agricultural areas20 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.6 %
- Other natural land0.7 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Şarköy orman yangını · Tekirdağ Şarköy yangını · Şenköy yangını
- Official area reported: 5,500 ha (the satellite measured 5,404 ha)
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 17 July 2025
Sources
- Tekirdağ / Şarköy yangınında son duruma ilişkin bilgilendirme — İletişim Başkanlığı (Presidencia de Comunicación, Gobierno de Turquía), 15 July 2025 · official source
- Şarköy'de yangın bölgesinde ağaçlandırma halkın isteği doğrultusunda yapılacak — Sabah, 19 July 2025
- Orman yangınlarında son durum | Şarköy ve Gelibolu'da yangınlar kontrol altında! — Hürriyet, 17 July 2025
- Wildfire in Tekirdağ under control after forcing 1,300 to evacuate — Hürriyet Daily News, 17 July 2025
Official figures are measured differently from satellite ones and sometimes cover only part of the fire.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jul | 31.0 °C | 28 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 16 Jul | 29.2 °C | 32 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 17 Jul | 29.1 °C | 38 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 18 Jul after | 26.1 °C | 53 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 19 Jul after | 27.5 °C | 39 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 20 Jul after | 28.7 °C | 30 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 21 Jul after | 29.7 °C | 35 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 22 Jul after | 32.4 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 23 Jul after | 34.0 °C | 28 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 24 Jul after | 32.1 °C | 40 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 25 Jul after | 31.0 °C | 41 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Jul after | 32.6 °C | 28 % | 57 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 27 Jul after | 29.9 °C | 43 % | 42 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.
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 18 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 57 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.3 times the WHO daily 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)
Detections table · 258Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Şarköy fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 15 July 2025 and 17 July 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 5,404 hectares (54.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Şarköy (5,177 ha, 10 %); Gelibolu (227 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.3 km of Şarköy. 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 31.0 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 59, class 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
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 258 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.