Burned area
satellite only4,068ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023 – 29 Apr 2023
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RU · Russia · –
Abatsky District fire, April 2023 Abatsky District, Sladkovsky District
Out · last detection 29 Apr 2023, 23:16 UTC
The fire started on 27 April 2023 in Abatsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,068 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 72th largest in Tyumen Oblast since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 303 in Russia in 2023, of 450.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only3days
27 Apr 2023 to 29 Apr 2023: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 29 Apr 2023, 23:16 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only27 Apr 2023
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only200
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 171 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023 – 29 Apr 2023
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only668MW
Total radiative power on 27 April 2023; hotspots that day: 54.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model27.5FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 12.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model25.4°C · 16% RH
High of 25.4 °C and minimum humidity of 16% on 27 April 2023; gusts of 58 km/h on 28 April 2023.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 27 Apr 2023 – 29 Apr 2023
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 4,068 ha
- Dates
- 27 Apr 2023 – 29 Apr 2023
- Name
- Abatsky District
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/abatsky-district-2023-04?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire abatsky-district-2023-04.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-27 | 54 | 668 | 25.4 | 14.5 | 16 | 29.5 | 52.2 | 0 | 27.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 77 | 255 | 21.9 | 4.5 | 26 | 30.4 | 58.3 | 0.1 | 27 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-04-29 | 69 | 555 | 11.2 | -1.3 | 21 | 14.8 | 32 | 0 | 17.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-04-30 | 0 | 0 | 9.4 | -2.6 | 25 | 22.6 | 45.7 | 0 | 19.7 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-05-01 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | -2.7 | 22 | 23.4 | 42.1 | 0 | 20.7 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-05-02 | 0 | 0 | 15.1 | -4.2 | 10 | 10.6 | 23 | 0 | 17.7 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-05-03 | 0 | 0 | 19.6 | 1.3 | 10 | 17 | 32.4 | 0 | 24.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 24.4 | 6.8 | 7 | 23.8 | 47.5 | 0 | 34.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-05 | 0 | 0 | 25.3 | 9 | 7 | 22.8 | 46.4 | 0 | 36.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-06 | 0 | 0 | 26.4 | 6.9 | 5 | 17.6 | 36 | 0 | 35.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-07 | 0 | 0 | 28.7 | 8.5 | 9 | 24.8 | 46.8 | 0 | 44.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-08 | 0 | 0 | 20.3 | 8.2 | 16 | 22.3 | 42.5 | 0 | 37.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-05-09 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | -0.1 | 22 | 16.4 | 38.5 | 0 | 27.6 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 4,068ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 27 Apr 2023 – 29 Apr 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 27 Apr
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 200
- in a single hotspot: 171 MW
- Danger at start
- 28
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 493MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
27 Apr29 Apr
29 Apr 2023
How it evolved, day by day
27 Apr
28 Apr
29 Apr
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
25°high
58km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity
It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
59% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 198 ha in 2018, 357 ha in 2021, 2,307 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,414 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Moscow boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Abatsky District where it started3,282 ha reached on 27 Apr0.8 %
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753 ha reached on 27 Apr0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
Started with Strong wind: 10.0 % of the area in Russia
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr | 25.4 °C | 16 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 28 Apr | 21.9 °C | 26 % | 58 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 27 |
| 29 Apr | 11.2 °C | 21 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 30 Apr after | 9.4 °C | 25 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 1 May after | 12.7 °C | 22 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 2 May after | 15.1 °C | 10 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 3 May after | 19.6 °C | 10 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 4 May after | 24.4 °C | 7 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 5 May after | 25.3 °C | 7 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 6 May after | 26.4 °C | 5 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 7 May after | 28.7 °C | 9 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 8 May after | 20.3 °C | 16 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 9 May after | 11.1 °C | 22 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 27.5, a minimum humidity of 16% and 12 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2017: 15.
FWI at the start
27.5
Minimum humidity
16 %
Days without rain
12
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Abatsky District fire, April 2023
4,068 ha
3 days
FWI 27.5
Min. humidity 16 %
Krutinsky District fire, May 2021
12,203 ha
10 days
FWI 27.1
Min. humidity 17 %
68 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.3 mm on 18 May.
Sladkovsky District fire, May 2021
21,945 ha
7 days
FWI 25.1
Min. humidity 17 %
31 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 18 May.
Sladkovsky District fire, May 2023
5,009 ha
4 days
FWI 24.7
Min. humidity 16 %
50 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 25 May.
Krutinsky District fire, May 2022
9,815 ha
7 days
FWI 25.8
Min. humidity 15 %
87 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 16 May.
Vikulovsky District fire, May 2021
6,379 ha
6 days
FWI 23.4
Min. humidity 17 %
120 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.5 mm on 15 May.
What happened to them
- 7 days
- median duration
- 6,903 ha
- median area
- 33 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 2.1 mm
- rain at the end (median; 14 of 15 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 4,068 ha against a median of 6,903 ha. It lasted 3 days, against 7 days.
In 1 of 15, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
58km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 29 Apr, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 14 of 15, with a median of 2.1 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2017.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 20 Apr 2023
After · 6 May 2023
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 30 April 2023 the air beside the fire reached 51 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak51 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1073 µg/m³
Optical depth0.55
WHO 15
25 Apr27 Apr29 Apr1 May
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Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 200Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 9,149 haSladkovsky District16 April 2021 · 14 days · 12 km away
- 10,316 haIshimsky District6 May 2023 · 3 days · 14 km away
- 20,001 haNazyvayevsky District15 April 2021 · 14 days · 17 km away
- 8,456 haIshimsky District5 May 2023 · 6 days · 25 km away
- 10,872 haAbatsky District12 April 2022 · 5 days · 26 km away
- 7,205 haAbatsky District13 April 2022 · 4 days · 26 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Abatsky District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 April 2023 and 29 April 2023: 3 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,068 hectares (40.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Abatsky District (3,282 ha, 0.8 %); Sladkovsky District (753 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 25.4 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Russia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2017 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 15. Their median duration was 7 days and their median area 6,903 ha; 33 % went past 10,000 ha. In 1 of 15, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 200 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.