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Silifke fire, October 2025 Silifke

Out · last measured on 6 Oct 2025

The fire started on 4 October 2025 in Silifke, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 6,202 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 2th largest in Mersin since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 5 in Türkiye in 2025, of 184.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
6,202ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
4 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
4 Oct
2025
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

28°high
45km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.7 mm on 8 Oct.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 346 ha in 2021.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.9% of the area of London (62 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Silifke 119,303 inhabitants · 9.0 km from the centre where it started
    6,192 ha
    2.2 %

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 forest55 %
  • Mixed forest16 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland15 %
  • Agricultural areas12 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub2.2 %

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)
4 Oct 28.0 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
5 Oct 26.6 °C 28 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
6 Oct 24.4 °C 41 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
7 Oct after 22.2 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm High 27
8 Oct after 21.6 °C 50 % 56 km/h 3.7 mm Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Sept 2025
After · 13 Oct 2025

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 3 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.24
23456789
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Silifke fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 4 October 2025 and 6 October 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 6,202 hectares (62.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Silifke (6,192 ha, 2.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Silifke and came within 9.0 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 28.0 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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.

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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.