Fire atlas
Fires in Türkiye
Satellite-detected fires in Türkiye right now, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 199,285 detections, 63,355 distinct fires, season and worst years by region.
Fires burning now in Türkiye
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Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS
See it on the mapFive years of archive
2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31
The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.
- Satellite detections
- 199,285
- Distinct fires
- 63,355
- Busiest month
- October
- Worst year
- 2024
- Strongest signal
- 4,856 MW
- Seen at night
- 28.4%
- Detections per 1,000 km²
- 255.5
Detections per year
| Year | Detections |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 34,327 |
| 2021 | 33,614 |
| 2022 | 17,586 |
| 2023 | 31,720 |
| 2024 | 40,629 |
| 2025 | 30,368 |
| 2026 | 11,041 |
The season
Share of detections by month, over the five years together.
| Month | Detections |
|---|---|
| Jan | 8,165 |
| Feb | 5,534 |
| Mar | 5,428 |
| Apr | 3,071 |
| May | 4,096 |
| Jun | 27,668 |
| Jul | 25,842 |
| Aug | 26,171 |
| Sep | 24,983 |
| Oct | 33,121 |
| Nov | 22,151 |
| Dec | 13,055 |
The most affected areas
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır | 53,401 |
| Mardin, Batman, Şırnak, Siirt | 22,190 |
| Adana, Mersin | 13,296 |
| Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye | 12,265 |
| Konya, Karaman | 10,591 |
| Aydın, Denizli, Muğla | 10,393 |
| Gaziantep, Adıyaman, Kilis | 8,637 |
| Antalya, Isparta, Burdur | 8,029 |
| Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli | 7,819 |
| Manisa, Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya, Uşak | 7,100 |
| Kayseri, Sivas, Yozgat | 5,727 |
| Balıkesir, Çanakkale | 5,132 |
The season is not the same everywhere
Each row is scaled to its own peak, so the comparison is between calendars rather than volumes. A row lighting up in summer is a forest-fire regime; a row lighting up in late winter signals agricultural burning.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır | Jan: 2,788 · Feb: 1,390 · Mar: 370 · Apr: 107 · May: 516 · Jun: 13,333 · Jul: 5,070 · Aug: 2,208 · Sep: 4,575 · Oct: 8,595 · Nov: 8,024 · Dec: 6,425 |
| Mardin, Batman, Şırnak, Siirt | Jan: 3,654 · Feb: 313 · Mar: 110 · Apr: 35 · May: 107 · Jun: 4,544 · Jul: 1,836 · Aug: 872 · Sep: 1,490 · Oct: 2,753 · Nov: 2,392 · Dec: 4,084 |
| Adana, Mersin | Jan: 198 · Feb: 307 · Mar: 242 · Apr: 166 · May: 557 · Jun: 945 · Jul: 1,811 · Aug: 3,544 · Sep: 3,857 · Oct: 947 · Nov: 583 · Dec: 139 |
| Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye | Jan: 108 · Feb: 145 · Mar: 154 · Apr: 70 · May: 326 · Jun: 1,548 · Jul: 1,625 · Aug: 1,926 · Sep: 3,072 · Oct: 2,532 · Nov: 686 · Dec: 73 |
| Konya, Karaman | Jan: 225 · Feb: 314 · Mar: 535 · Apr: 229 · May: 93 · Jun: 160 · Jul: 367 · Aug: 977 · Sep: 1,457 · Oct: 1,807 · Nov: 3,228 · Dec: 1,199 |
| Aydın, Denizli, Muğla | Jan: 148 · Feb: 514 · Mar: 361 · Apr: 125 · May: 149 · Jun: 717 · Jul: 1,792 · Aug: 4,485 · Sep: 582 · Oct: 814 · Nov: 627 · Dec: 79 |
| Gaziantep, Adıyaman, Kilis | Jan: 126 · Feb: 157 · Mar: 108 · Apr: 45 · May: 107 · Jun: 1,072 · Jul: 1,566 · Aug: 782 · Sep: 1,560 · Oct: 2,344 · Nov: 629 · Dec: 141 |
| Antalya, Isparta, Burdur | Jan: 60 · Feb: 190 · Mar: 270 · Apr: 161 · May: 177 · Jun: 261 · Jul: 3,368 · Aug: 2,319 · Sep: 412 · Oct: 403 · Nov: 358 · Dec: 50 |
| Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli | Jan: 58 · Feb: 157 · Mar: 331 · Apr: 163 · May: 108 · Jun: 335 · Jul: 743 · Aug: 445 · Sep: 1,009 · Oct: 3,781 · Nov: 660 · Dec: 29 |
| Manisa, Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya, Uşak | Jan: 143 · Feb: 339 · Mar: 291 · Apr: 326 · May: 422 · Jun: 678 · Jul: 822 · Aug: 1,188 · Sep: 878 · Oct: 1,175 · Nov: 723 · Dec: 115 |
Regions
The largest recorded fires
The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.
3,413 detections · 52.8 km across · 4,856 MW
2,145 detections · 80.3 km across · 101 MW
1,392 detections · 37.1 km across · 2,188 MW
1,384 detections · 61.1 km across · 312 MW
1,332 detections · 71.1 km across · 220 MW
A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.
Aerial response in Türkiye
25 verified aircraft in the catalog, tracked over ADS-B when they transmit.
See the Türkiye registerThe questions people ask
- Where are the wildfires in Türkiye today?
- The region table below shows, for each of them, the satellite detections from the last 24 hours. Open a region to go down to the province, or go straight to the map, which shows every detection point with its time and its power.
- Which regions of Türkiye burn the most?
- The ranking below answers directly: regions are sorted by satellite detections over five years, most affected first. Each row leads to a page detailing its season, its worst years and its largest fires.
- When is the fire season in Türkiye?
- Over five years, October is the month with the most detections in Türkiye. But a national average hides opposite regimes: the Mediterranean coast burns in summer, while some inland regions peak in late winter because of agricultural burning.
- Can this map replace an official alert?
- No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.
How to read this page
A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.
The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.
Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 62,045 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 944 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 15,198 detections were removed.
Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.
The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.
Data sources
Archive built on July 31, 2026, covering 2020 to 2026.