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🇹🇷 Turkey: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 67 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 14 November at 23:12.

Busiest day: 10 October, with 20 ignitions detected. -77% compared with September 2026.

67
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
169
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 67 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: 169 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

012026-10-01: 2032026-10-03: 4042026-10-04: 6052026-10-05: 2072026-10-07: 8082026-10-08: 2092026-10-09: 2102026-10-10: 20112026-10-11: 6132026-10-13: 1172026-10-17: 2182026-10-18: 2222026-10-22: 1232026-10-23: 3242026-10-24: 1252026-10-25: 1282026-10-28: 4

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Kozluca7 Oct, 09:2816169
Musabeyli8 Oct, 12:104122
Akziyaret10 Oct, 10:408103
Çiftlikköyü13 Oct, 13:281396
Pekmezli11 Oct, 14:251090
Lüleburgaz11 Oct, 11:301690
Bolu10 Oct, 08:55881
Ceylanpınar10 Oct, 09:401169
Kazan11 Oct, 09:55868
Yıllarca25 Oct, 13:37865

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Turkey, October 2026: 67 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-14.

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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