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Bauntovsky Rayon fire, 29 May 2016 Bauntovsky Rayon

Out · last detection 10 Jun 2016, 18:51 UTC

The fire started on 29 May 2016 in Bauntovsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,274 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 76th largest in Buryatia since 2016 (of 198 with a page). Number 330 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
6,274ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
14days
29 May 2016 – 11 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
29 May
2016
Heat detections
353
in a single hotspot: 138 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
323MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 May11 Jun
10 Jun 2016

How it evolved, day by day

29 May 2016 · 13 MW · 1 31 May 2016 · 20 MW · 1 1 Jun 2016 · 228 MW · 31 2 Jun 2016 · 758 MW · 82 3 Jun 2016 · 1,972 MW · 92 5 Jun 2016 · 26 MW · 4 6 Jun 2016 · 24 MW · 4 7 Jun 2016 · 30 MW · 3 8 Jun 2016 · 476 MW · 131 9 Jun 2016 · 12 MW · 3 10 Jun 2016 · 1 MW · 1
29 May 1 Jun 3 Jun 6 Jun 8 Jun 10 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

26°high
58km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.3 mm on 12 Jun.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4% of the area of London (63 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

  1. Bauntovsky Rayon where it started
    6,305 ha reached on 29 May
    0.1 %

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 2015
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, 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.

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)
29 May 16.3 °C 25 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
30 May 18.4 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
31 May 22.7 °C 20 % 25 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
1 Jun 23.5 °C 24 % 26 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 14
2 Jun 26.0 °C 20 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
3 Jun 26.2 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
4 Jun 14.8 °C 35 % 58 km/h 2.1 mm Low 6
5 Jun 15.5 °C 24 % 52 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 12
6 Jun 16.4 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 12
7 Jun 17.8 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.8 mm Low 11
8 Jun 20.7 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 13
9 Jun 16.9 °C 40 % 29 km/h 3.1 mm Very low 2
10 Jun 16.9 °C 43 % 34 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 2
11 Jun 20.9 °C 28 % 27 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 2
12 Jun after 17.7 °C 42 % 26 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 May 2016
After · 18 Jun 2016

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

Detections table · 353Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bauntovsky Rayon fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 May 2016 to 11 June 2016 (14 days). The perimeter dates it from 31 May 2016 to 11 June 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,274 hectares (62.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bauntovsky Rayon (6,305 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.2 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, class Moderate.
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

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Start date: 31 May 2016 → 29 May 2016.

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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 31 May 2016 to 11 June 2016. 353 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 2015, 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.