Seferihisar fire, 29 June 2025 Seferihisar
The fire started on 29 June 2025 in Seferihisar, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 5,112 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 3th largest in İzmir since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 7 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.
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- Burnt area
- 5,112ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 29 Jun 2025 – 2 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 29 Jun
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 81
- in a single hotspot: 125 MW
- Danger at start
- 76
- Very extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 509MW
- 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 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
23% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 226 ha in 2016, 108 ha in 2017, 1,000 ha in 2020, 12 ha in 2022, 6 ha in 2023, 153 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,163 ha that had burned before.
- 1,000 ha Seferihisar fire, July 2020 1,014 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 153 ha Seferihisar fire, May 2016 152 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 108 ha Seferihisar fire, October 2017 125 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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5,117 ha reached on 29 Jun13 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land68 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland18 %
- Agricultural areas3.7 %
- Coniferous forest3.5 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub3.2 %
- Mixed forest2.4 %
- Artificial surfaces0.7 %
- Broadleaved forest0.6 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 7.8 hectares of built-up land and about 550 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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
- İzmir orman yangını · Seferihisar yangını · Menderes ve Seferihisar yangınları
- According to the sources, several fires that ended up merging:
- Kuyucak / Orhanlı-Doğanbey (Seferihisar-Menderes, frontera) 29 June 2025
- Kavakdere (Seferihisar) 29 June 2025
- Gaziemir/Karabağlar 29 June 2025
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 2 July 2025
Sources
- Orman Yangınları Hakkında Bilgilendirme — Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Urbanismo y Cambio Climatico (İzmir), 1 July 2025 · official source
- Yangın felaketi son buldu — Seferihisar Belediyesi · official source
- Orman yangınlarında son durum: 10 bin hektar alan küle döndü — Medyascope, 2 July 2025
- Seferihisar ve Menderes yangınlarının bilançosu ağır — Karar, 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun | 33.0 °C | 24 % | 73 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 76 |
| 30 Jun | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 64 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 72 |
| 1 Jul | 36.0 °C | 23 % | 65 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 73 |
| 2 Jul | 35.4 °C | 12 % | 61 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 79 |
| 3 Jul after | 34.9 °C | 13 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 78 |
| 4 Jul after | 34.4 °C | 19 % | 58 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 70 |
| 5 Jul after | 34.9 °C | 21 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 6 Jul after | 29.2 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 7 Jul after | 26.7 °C | 61 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 8 Jul after | 29.4 °C | 51 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 9 Jul after | 29.7 °C | 42 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 10 Jul after | 35.1 °C | 30 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 11 Jul after | 33.3 °C | 28 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 12 Jul after | 33.8 °C | 33 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
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 2 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 81Every 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 Seferihisar fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 29 June 2025 and 2 July 2025: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 5,112 hectares (51.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Seferihisar (5,117 ha, 13 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Seferihisar and came within 2.5 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.0 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 73 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 79, class Very 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 81 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.