Fire near Gömeç (TR)

39.32°N, 26.93°E · first detected on 29 July at 12:17

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 29 July at 12:17 to 31 July at 14:44, that is 2 days, through 657 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 6,764 ha.

Detected extent: 6,764 ha
Cumulative power: 22,283 MW
Peak power: 1,096 MW
Detections: 657

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is centred on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole fire, from the first satellite pass to the last. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “12 h” stacks twelve hours , as the home map does, where stacking avoids an empty screen between two satellite passes. Both are true, but they say different things.

The detected extent

Outline of the burned area near Gömeç (TR), drawn over satellite imagery — The outline is the union of the ground footprints of every satellite detection of this fire, from the first pass to the last. The background is the EOX cloudless Sentinel-2 mosaic, 2024 vintage: it shows the landscape BEFORE these fires, not the burn scar.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power	Detections	Sensor
31 July at 14:44	727 MW	5	Aqua
31 July at 13:40	22 MW	2	N20
31 July at 13:19	35 MW	2	N
31 July at 03:41	82 MW	4	Aqua
31 July at 03:02	82 MW	14	N21
31 July at 02:18	123 MW	27	N20
31 July at 01:58	92 MW	25	N
31 July at 01:22	49 MW	18	N21
30 July at 20:34	291 MW	15	Terra
30 July at 15:44	2,776 MW	10	Aqua
30 July at 13:57	817 MW	63	N20
30 July at 13:38	1,206 MW	56	N
30 July at 13:04	1,430 MW	43	N21
30 July at 12:17	583 MW	26	N20
30 July at 09:29	505 MW	14	Terra
30 July at 04:43	549 MW	10	Aqua
30 July at 02:35	457 MW	64	N20
30 July at 02:16	361 MW	70	N
30 July at 01:41	226 MW	51	N21
29 July at 19:54	1,473 MW	17	Terra
29 July at 15:06	3,587 MW	18	Aqua
29 July at 14:17	1,606 MW	32	N20
29 July at 13:57	3,759 MW	46	N
29 July at 13:21	1,382 MW	22	N21
29 July at 12:36	57 MW	2	N20
29 July at 12:17	6 MW	1	N
21 July at 14:12	12 MW	1	N21
21 July at 13:08	19 MW	2	N

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