Seydikemer fire, July 2026 Seydikemer
The fire started on 29 July 2026 in Seydikemer, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 5,283 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 5th largest in Muğla since 2016 (of 43 with a page). Number 2 in Türkiye in 2026, of 111.
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- Burnt area
- 5,283ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- ≈ 9days
- 29 Jul 2026 – 6 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 29 Jul
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 280
- in a single hotspot: 322 MW
- Danger at start
- 40
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 5.2GW
- 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 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.4 mm on 16 Aug.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
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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5,295 ha reached on 29 Jul2.7 %
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
- Coniferous forest65 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland18 %
- Agricultural areas17 %
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
- Seydikemer orman yangını · Muğla yangını
- Official area reported: 5,000 ha (the satellite measured 5,283 ha)
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 30 July 2026
Sources
- Bakan Yumaklı açıkladı: Seydikemer yangını kontrol altında — Memurlar.net (Anadolu Ajansı), 30 July 2026 · official source
- Muğla'daki yangınlarda 5 bin hektardan fazla alan zarar gördü — DHA, 31 July 2026
- Seydikemer ve Fethiye'deki Büyük Yangın: Söndürülen Alevler ve Destek Çalışmaları — Haber S Balıkesir, 31 July 2026
- Orman yangınları son dakika 30 Temmuz — Hürriyet (directo), 30 July 2026
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 Jul | 36.9 °C | 24 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 30 Jul | 38.3 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 31 Jul | 36.5 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 1 Aug | 35.4 °C | 27 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 2 Aug | 35.1 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 3 Aug | 34.9 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Aug | 34.7 °C | 34 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 5 Aug | 34.5 °C | 38 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 6 Aug | 34.8 °C | 38 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 7 Aug after | 35.3 °C | 33 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 8 Aug after | 36.0 °C | 29 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 9 Aug after | 35.4 °C | 33 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 10 Aug after | 35.7 °C | 30 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 11 Aug after | 36.4 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 12 Aug after | 36.7 °C | 27 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 13 Aug after | 36.3 °C | 27 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 14 Aug after | 35.6 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 15 Aug after | 31.7 °C | 37 % | 27 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 30 |
| 16 Aug after | 29.4 °C | 47 % | 23 km/h | 9.4 mm | Very low 3 |
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 1 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 99 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 48: 3.2 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 · 280Every 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 Seydikemer fire last?
- The official perimeter only gives the start date (29 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 6 August 2026 (9 days from 29 July 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 5,283 hectares (52.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Seydikemer (5,295 ha, 2.7 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Seydikemer and came within 3.6 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 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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 · 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.
- The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 280 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.