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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
The story so far
Summary written on Jul 23, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Burning near Haliliye, Turkey, the active wildfire spans 130 hectares (321 acres) after starting on July 22, 2026. Satellites are picking up a low heat signature from the front, while 5 heat detections cluster nearby over the past 48 hours to trace its ongoing spread.
In context
This wildfire burned in Turkey for 2 days. In total it burned about 130 ha (321 acres) — around 1.3 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Turkey
Across Turkey, roughly 62,209 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 16% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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