Burned area
satellite only123ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 20 November 2024
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TR · Türkiye ·
Yüksekova fire, November 2024 Yüksekova
Out · last detection 10 Nov 2024, 10:42 UTC
The fire started on 10 November 2024 in Yüksekova, Türkiye, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 123 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 87th largest in Hakkâri since 2016 (of 111 with a page). Number 222 in Türkiye in 2024, of 271.
The power measured by the satellite is low (18.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
10 Nov 2024 to 10 Nov 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 10 Nov 2024, 10:42 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only10 Nov 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 10 Nov 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only5
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 19 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 10 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only54MW
Total radiative power on 10 November 2024; hotspots that day: 5.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 10 Nov 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model7.6FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 4.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 10 Nov 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model12.9°C · 27% RH
High of 12.9 °C and minimum humidity of 27% on 10 November 2024; gusts of 26 km/h on 10 November 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 10 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 123 ha
- Dates
- 10 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Name
- Yüksekova
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/yuksekova-2024-11?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire yuksekova-2024-11.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-10 | 5 | 54 | 12.9 | -1.8 | 27 | 7.4 | 25.9 | 0 | 7.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-11-11 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 33 | 4.5 | 32.8 | 10.8 | 0 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 123ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 10 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 10 Nov
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 5
- in a single hotspot: 19 MW
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 54MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
10 Nov10 Nov
How it evolved, day by day
10 Nov 2024 · 54 MW · 5
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
13°high
26km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.8 mm on 11 Nov.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 123 ha in 2016, 237 ha in 2017, 60 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 123 ha that had burned before.
- 113 ha Yüksekova fire, October 2017 416 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 69 ha Yüksekova fire, November 2016 550 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 60 ha Yüksekova fire, November 2021 1,492 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 50 ha Yüksekova fire, October 2016 170 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3 ha Yüksekova fire, November 2016 329 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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123 ha reached on 10 Nov0.0 %
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 land100 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov | 12.9 °C | 27 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 11 Nov after | 7.8 °C | 33 % | 33 km/h | 10.8 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 7.6, a minimum humidity of 27% and 4 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 14.
FWI at the start
7.6
Minimum humidity
27 %
Days without rain
4
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Yüksekova fire, November 2024
123 ha
1 day
FWI 7.6
Min. humidity 27 %
Yüksekova fire, November 2021
1,492 ha
7 days
FWI 13.1
Min. humidity 27 %
3 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Yüksekova fire, November 2021
100 ha
7 days
FWI 13.1
Min. humidity 27 %
6 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Silopi fire, November 2019
118 ha
6 days
FWI 13.9
Min. humidity 29 %
153 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Doğubayazıt fire, July 2025
111 ha
1 day
FWI 10.6
Min. humidity 31 %
243 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 13 Jul.
Aralık fire, July 2025
149 ha
1 day
FWI 12.1
Min. humidity 32 %
247 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 13 Jul.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 14. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
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
10.8 mmfirst rain
11 Novthe day after it ended
26km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 10 Nov, and on 11 Nov 10.8 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.
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.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 3 Nov 2024
After · 17 Nov 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 12 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
WHO 15
8 Nov10 Nov12 Nov
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Fair
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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 · 5Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Yüksekova fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 10 November 2024 and 10 November 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 123 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Yüksekova (123 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Yüksekova and came within 9.1 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 12.9 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
- 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
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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. 5 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.
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.