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🇹🇷 Turkey: wildfires in September 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, September 2026: 295 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:59.

Busiest day: 2 September, with 36 ignitions detected. -47% compared with August 2026.

295
archived events
0
still active
1
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
1022
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 295 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: 1022 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

012026-09-01: 34022026-09-02: 36032026-09-03: 13042026-09-04: 26052026-09-05: 24062026-09-06: 12072026-09-07: 8082026-09-08: 27092026-09-09: 3102026-09-10: 6112026-09-11: 4122026-09-12: 5132026-09-13: 8142026-09-14: 7152026-09-15: 3162026-09-16: 11172026-09-17: 4182026-09-18: 3192026-09-19: 6202026-09-20: 17212026-09-21: 1222026-09-22: 5232026-09-23: 1242026-09-24: 2252026-09-25: 14262026-09-26: 3272026-09-27: 2282026-09-28: 2292026-09-29: 2302026-09-30: 6

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Düğrek7 Sept, 02:38951022
Akdam7 Sept, 22:08387749
Gözyeri13 Sept, 09:2835393
Şekerli1 Sept, 15:5030387
Çifteler13 Sept, 15:2526321
Davulga13 Sept, 11:0826266
Karakoçan2 Sept, 09:1026245
Ceylanpınar14 Sept, 08:559240
Mermer15 Sept, 13:5011167
Turgutreis24 Sept, 17:1036161

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Turkey, September 2026: 295 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.

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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