🇹🇷 Turkey: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Turkey, August 2026: 555 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:24.
Busiest day: 13 August, with 58 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 555 detection events in Turkey, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 427 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marmaris | 15 Aug, 14:50 | 19 | 427 |
| Sarıkaya | 7 Aug, 14:28 | 49 | 320 |
| Karakeçi | 25 Aug, 14:58 | 21 | 278 |
| Gördes | 15 Aug, 14:08 | 43 | 246 |
| Kuyulusebil | 24 Aug, 15:00 | 38 | 238 |
| Kula | 9 Aug, 14:08 | 73 | 219 |
| Havsa | 6 Aug, 09:48 | 22 | 196 |
| Turgut | 18 Aug, 14:50 | 17 | 187 |
| Şekerli | 11 Aug, 14:10 | 9 | 159 |
| Mollafeneri | 23 Aug, 10:58 | 26 | 159 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Turkey, August 2026: 555 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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