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Ulubey fire, August 2024 Ulubey, Karahallı

Out · last measured on 4 Aug 2024

The fire started on 4 August 2024 in Ulubey, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 222 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 10th largest in Uşak since 2016 (of 15 with a page). Number 131 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.

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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
222ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
4 Aug 2024 – 4 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
4 Aug
2024
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

38°high
41km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 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. Ulubey 12,955 inhabitants · 13.7 km from the centre where it started
    178 ha
    0.2 %
  2. Karahallı 10,457 inhabitants · 10.0 km from the centre
    45 ha
    0.1 %

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

  • Agricultural areas99 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.9 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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

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)

Started with Very dry air: 48 % of the area in Türkiye

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
4 Aug 37.5 °C 13 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
5 Aug after 37.0 °C 19 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
6 Aug after 35.0 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48
7 Aug after 35.9 °C 18 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
8 Aug after 36.8 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
9 Aug after 37.0 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
10 Aug after 36.0 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
11 Aug after 35.3 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 49
12 Aug after 35.7 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Aug after 37.4 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Aug after 38.4 °C 11 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 54.2, a minimum humidity of 13% and 9 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 18.

FWI at the start 54.2
Minimum humidity 13 %
Days without rain 9
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Uşak merkez fire, June 2024
916 ha 3 days FWI 54.3 Min. humidity 14 % 47 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

2 days
median duration
298 ha
median area
6 %
went past 1,000 ha
1.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 11 of 18 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (222 ha against a median of 298 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 2 days.

In 7 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.7 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
41km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 4 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 11 of 18, with a median of 1.7 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Jul 2024
After · 11 Aug 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 5 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1021 µg/m³
Optical depth0.35
2 Aug4 Aug6 Aug
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 Ulubey fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 4 August 2024 and 4 August 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 222 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ulubey (178 ha, 0.2 %); Karahallı (45 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 10.0 km of the centre of Karahallı, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 18. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 298 ha; 6 % went past 1,000 ha. In 7 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.7 mm.

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.

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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.
  • 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.

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.