Turkey

Brief · 16 September 2026

This is the most recent brief; none has been generated since 16 September 2026. The event list below is current.

Turkey's dashboard activity this week centred on a red-severity wildfire first tracked on 8 September 2026, reported by GWIS via GDACS with a total fire radiative power of 7,076 MW and 301 thermal detections. Two additional wildfires in Turkey, also first tracked in the same period, are being monitored alongside it, with one reaching orange severity as recently as 12 September 2026.

Wildfire A red-severity wildfire in Turkey, first tracked on 8 September 2026, has produced a total fire radiative power of 7,076 MW with a peak of 588 MW and 301 thermal detections across 20 satellite passes. It is classified as a new event, with an earlier reading on 7 September 2026 showing 5,151 MW.

Wildfire A second red-severity wildfire in Turkey, also first tracked on 8 September 2026, showed a total fire radiative power of 18,822 MW in early September readings, with a more recent measurement of 3,259 MW and 150 thermal detections. A separate orange-severity wildfire, first tracked on 12 September 2026, is producing 2,229 MW of total fire radiative power across 253 thermal detections.

• A red-severity wildfire in Turkey, first tracked on 8 September 2026, is a new event with total fire radiative power of 7,076 MW.
• A second wildfire in Turkey, also first tracked on 8 September 2026, is a new event with total fire radiative power reaching 18,822 MW in early readings.
• An orange-severity wildfire in Turkey, first tracked on 12 September 2026, is a new event producing 2,229 MW of total fire radiative power.

Summarised from Hazardly's tracked events for the seven days to 16 September 2026 · no external sources. Generated by claude-sonnet-5 at 16 Sept, 20:42 UTC, not reviewed by a person before publication. Outbreak lines name the disease and country only; WHO's bulletin text is on each outbreak's event page.