Wildfire near Haliliye
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
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.
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 43,877 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 18% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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