🇹🇷 Turkey: wildfires in August 2026

Over the month, kanari archived 440 significant fire ignitions in Turkey (August 2026). Figures from kanari's fire memory, updated 22 August at 11:59.

440

significant fires

still active

with verified witnesses

with aircraft observed

427

peak power (MW)

"In August 2026, kanari detected 440 significant wildfires in Turkey, 22 of them still active at the last update; the most powerful reached 427 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

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
Gördes	15 Aug, 14:08	43	246
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
Kırşehir	9 Aug, 08:38	10	155
Harmancık	6 Aug, 09:25	4	141
Siverek	10 Aug, 20:25	9	140

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Wildfires detected, Turkey, August 2026: 440 significant ignitions. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-08-22.

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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