How long did the Barguzinsky Rayon fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 June 2025 to 29 June 2025 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 15 June 2025 to 29 June 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,083 hectares (60.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Barguzinsky Rayon (6,044 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 65 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, 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.

RU · Russia · 2025-06-08 → 2025-06-29

Barguzinsky Rayon fire, June 2025 Barguzinsky Rayon

Out · last detection 28 Jun 2025, 19:24 UTC

The fire started on 8 June 2025 in Barguzinsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,083 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 80th largest in Buryatia since 2016 (of 198 with a page). Number 121 in Russia in 2025, of 246.

Compare with…

Burnt area: 6,083ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 22days; 8 Jun 2025 – 29 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 8 Jun; 2025
Heat detections: 592; in a single hotspot: 372 MW
Danger at start: 11; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 767MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Jun29 Jun

Play back 28 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

8 Jun 13 Jun 16 Jun 20 Jun 23 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

33°high

65km/h · peak gust

18%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.1 mm on 30 Jun.

This area had burned before

7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 414 ha in 2017.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 3.8% of the area of London (61 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Barguzinsky Rayon where it started

6,044 ha reached on 8 Jun

0.4 %

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 2025

Built-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)

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
8 Jun	16.1 °C	21 %	38 km/h	0.5 mm	Moderate 11
9 Jun	20.0 °C	22 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
10 Jun	13.3 °C	46 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
11 Jun	17.2 °C	43 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
12 Jun	19.5 °C	38 %	49 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 13
13 Jun	14.5 °C	54 %	44 km/h	1.2 mm	Very low 5
14 Jun	18.4 °C	40 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
15 Jun	19.0 °C	49 %	57 km/h	3.3 mm	Very low 3
16 Jun	21.5 °C	33 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 6
17 Jun	17.7 °C	53 %	45 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 8
18 Jun	13.4 °C	40 %	65 km/h	2.4 mm	Very low 4
19 Jun	19.5 °C	29 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
20 Jun	26.6 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
21 Jun	28.9 °C	22 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
22 Jun	30.6 °C	22 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
23 Jun	25.7 °C	34 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
24 Jun	27.7 °C	25 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
25 Jun	32.6 °C	18 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
26 Jun	28.7 °C	34 %	28 km/h	2.0 mm	Low 8
27 Jun	24.3 °C	46 %	41 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 14
28 Jun	20.8 °C	43 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
29 Jun	22.8 °C	36 %	22 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 15
30 Jun after	19.4 °C	60 %	63 km/h	13.1 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 1 Jun 2025

After · 6 Jul 2025

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 1 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 887 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 278: 19 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak887 µg/m³

Days over the guideline13 days

PM10900 µg/m³

Optical depth3.02

WHO 15

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Good 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 · 592Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Barguzinsky Rayon fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 June 2025 to 29 June 2025 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 15 June 2025 to 29 June 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,083 hectares (60.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Barguzinsky Rayon (6,044 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 65 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, 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.

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

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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Start date: 15 June 2025 → 8 June 2025.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 15 June 2025 to 29 June 2025. 592 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.

Where it burned