Fire archive
The live map only shows the last few days; the satellite archive goes back to 2012. The records below were prepared from NASA FIRMS archive (SP) data: you can replay from start to finish where a fire began, which way it moved and how many days it lasted.
- Seydikemer fireMuğla
27 July 2026 → 31 July 2026 · 3.5 days · 747 satellite detections · peak 2639 MW
The fire that began around Seydikemer on 29 July 2026 became this season's most intensely observed forest fire from orbit.
- Burhaniye – Ayvalık firesBalıkesir
20 July 2026 → 1 August 2026 · 12.5 days · 714 satellite detections · peak 1096 MW
Fires burning at several points around Burhaniye and Ayvalık through the second half of July 2026.
- Manavgat fireAntalya
28 July 2021 → 13 August 2021 · 16.5 days · 9204 satellite detections · peak 4856 MW
Starting in Manavgat on 28 July 2021 and burning for days, this became one of the largest measured forest fires in Türkiye.
- Marmaris fireMuğla
29 July 2021 → 11 August 2021 · 12.6 days · 3948 satellite detections · peak 2027 MW
The fire that broke out in and around Marmaris in late July led to the evacuation of coastal settlements.
- Milas fireMuğla
1 August 2021 → 12 August 2021 · 11.4 days · 2537 satellite detections · peak 2355 MW
The Milas fire reached the grounds of the Kemerköy thermal power plant and dominated the national news.
- Marmaris fire (2022)Muğla
21 June 2022 → 24 June 2022 · 2.5 days · 594 satellite detections · peak 1853 MW
A year after 2021, another large fire was observed around Marmaris in the same area. Playing the two seasons side by side shows what it means for the same ground to burn again.
- Çanakkale – Kepez fireÇanakkale
20 August 2023 → 27 August 2023 · 7.0 days · 459 satellite detections · peak 3773 MW
The fire observed around Kepez in Çanakkale in August 2023 stood out for how close it came to settlements on both sides of the strait.
- İzmir – Yamanlar fireİzmir
13 August 2024 → 18 August 2024 · 5.9 days · 369 satellite detections · peak 299 MW
The August 2024 fire on the Yamanlar and Karşıyaka ridges advanced through forest directly above an urban settlement.
- Seferihisar – Menderes fireİzmir
28 June 2025 → 4 July 2025 · 6.5 days · 1109 satellite detections · peak 1289 MW
Observed between Seferihisar and Menderes in June 2025, this was one of the first large events of a season that started early.
- Ödemiş – Kiraz fireİzmir
3 July 2025 → 6 July 2025 · 3.5 days · 283 satellite detections · peak 1562 MW
The July 2025 fire around Ödemiş and Kiraz advanced through the mountainous terrain of inland İzmir.
- Bursa – Kestel fireBursa
30 June 2025 → 19 July 2025 · 20.0 days · 114 satellite detections · peak 29 MW
The July 2025 fire around Kestel and Gürsu advanced along the eastern ridges of a major city.
- Karabük fireKarabük
26 July 2025 → 8 August 2025 · 14.0 days · 514 satellite detections · peak 1472 MW
The fire that began around Karabük in late July burned for days. Fires in the dense forest of the western Black Sea region are among the hardest to see from orbit, because they advance beneath the canopy.
- Eskişehir fireEskişehir
24 June 2025 → 9 July 2025 · 15.9 days · 166 satellite detections · peak 169 MW
Lives were lost in the fire that broke out around Eskişehir in June 2025. This record is not a spectacle: it documents what the satellite saw on those days, and where the fire advanced hour by hour. Everything we cannot measure — how the response unfolded, those who were lost — lies outside this data and should stay outside it.
- Evia fireYunanistan
2 August 2021 → 17 August 2021 · 15.0 days · 8334 satellite detections · peak 5285 MW
Burning for days in northern Evia in August 2021, this is one of the best satellite-documented mega-fires in the Mediterranean basin — which is why its progression record is so rich.
- Rhodes fireYunanistan
18 July 2023 → 27 July 2023 · 8.7 days · 2023 satellite detections · peak 3108 MW
The July 2023 fire on Rhodes burned for days, advancing from the island's mountainous interior towards the coast.
- Evros – Dadia fireYunanistan
19 August 2023 → 3 September 2023 · 15.0 days · 10158 satellite detections · peak 4612 MW
Beginning around the Dadia forest in Evros in August 2023, this fire burned for weeks and became one of the largest measured from orbit in Europe. Sitting just west of the Turkish border, it is also valuable for showing how a fire advances in the same climate and fuel type.
- Varnavas – Athens fireYunanistan
10 August 2024 → 17 August 2024 · 7.0 days · 1186 satellite detections · peak 2768 MW
The August 2024 fire that began at Varnavas advanced towards the northern suburbs of Athens — the record of a forest fire moving up to the edge of a major metropolis.
A satellite sees heat anomalies; the number of detections is not directly proportional to the burnt area, and fires under cloud, moving beneath the canopy, or dying out between two passes appear incomplete in the record. This page is not an official record of a fire's size — it is what the satellite saw.