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Bauntovsky Rayon fire, 5 May 2016 Bauntovsky Rayon

Out · last detection 18 Jun 2016, 18:00 UTC

The fire started on 5 May 2016 in Bauntovsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 45 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 20,858 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

It is the 11th largest in Buryatia since 2016 (of 198 with a page). Number 71 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
20,858ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
45days
5 May 2016 – 18 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
5 May
2016
Heat detections
1,886
in a single hotspot: 377 MW
Danger at start
2
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
734MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 May18 Jun
18 Jun 2016

How it evolved, day by day

5 May 2016 · 145 MW · 21 7 May 2016 · 1,884 MW · 122 8 May 2016 · 28 MW · 5 10 May 2016 · 257 MW · 29 11 May 2016 · 114 MW · 15 12 May 2016 · 115 MW · 13 13 May 2016 · 31 MW · 15 14 May 2016 · 1,784 MW · 71 15 May 2016 · 238 MW · 112 16 May 2016 · 1,034 MW · 46 17 May 2016 · 877 MW · 150 20 May 2016 · 1 MW · 1 21 May 2016 · 3 MW · 2 22 May 2016 · 125 MW · 18 23 May 2016 · 6 MW · 2 24 May 2016 · 1 MW · 1 25 May 2016 · 31 MW · 6 26 May 2016 · 58 MW · 12 28 May 2016 · 3 MW · 2 29 May 2016 · 280 MW · 34 30 May 2016 · 647 MW · 40 31 May 2016 · 3,323 MW · 154 1 Jun 2016 · 735 MW · 83 2 Jun 2016 · 7,773 MW · 312 3 Jun 2016 · 6,720 MW · 215 4 Jun 2016 · 787 MW · 74 5 Jun 2016 · 693 MW · 81 6 Jun 2016 · 89 MW · 7 7 Jun 2016 · 159 MW · 36 8 Jun 2016 · 839 MW · 99 9 Jun 2016 · 18 MW · 9 10 Jun 2016 · 9 MW · 5 11 Jun 2016 · 241 MW · 21 12 Jun 2016 · 18 MW · 9 13 Jun 2016 · 173 MW · 30 14 Jun 2016 · 29 MW · 16 15 Jun 2016 · 10 MW · 7 16 Jun 2016 · 3 MW · 2 17 Jun 2016 · 25 MW · 4 18 Jun 2016 · 43 MW · 5
5 May 13 May 21 May 28 May 2 Jun 3 Jun 9 Jun 15 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

25°high
60km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.0 mm on 19 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 13% of the area of London (209 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
    21,401 ha reached on 5 May
    0.3 %

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)
5 May 5.1 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
6 May 7.1 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 3
7 May 12.3 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
8 May 11.6 °C 28 % 51 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 3
9 May 17.0 °C 17 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
10 May 7.1 °C 45 % 49 km/h 2.6 mm Very low 1
11 May 0.4 °C 33 % 51 km/h 1.1 mm Very low 1
12 May 2.6 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
13 May 7.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 1
14 May 6.2 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 3
15 May 15.9 °C 30 % 50 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 4
16 May 18.4 °C 25 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
17 May 12.0 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
18 May 11.9 °C 46 % 40 km/h 13.8 mm Very low 0
19 May 8.4 °C 47 % 36 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 0
20 May 6.5 °C 47 % 55 km/h 0.7 mm Very low 1
21 May 11.0 °C 39 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
22 May 13.7 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
23 May 15.4 °C 41 % 40 km/h 0.3 mm Low 6
24 May 8.4 °C 51 % 35 km/h 4.0 mm Very low 0
25 May 5.0 °C 36 % 47 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 1
26 May 5.9 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm Very low 2
27 May 9.1 °C 26 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
28 May 6.4 °C 37 % 60 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 3
29 May 14.4 °C 31 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
30 May 19.2 °C 21 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
31 May 20.4 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
1 Jun 22.6 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
2 Jun 24.6 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
3 Jun 24.8 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
4 Jun 15.7 °C 44 % 53 km/h 2.6 mm Very low 4
5 Jun 13.4 °C 31 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
6 Jun 15.5 °C 40 % 45 km/h 0.3 mm Low 9
7 Jun 17.3 °C 34 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
8 Jun 19.5 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 13
9 Jun 16.2 °C 39 % 25 km/h 4.4 mm Very low 1
10 Jun 18.0 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm Very low 4
11 Jun 19.7 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm Low 10
12 Jun 17.5 °C 47 % 29 km/h 5.3 mm Very low 1
13 Jun 21.6 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 4
14 Jun 16.7 °C 51 % 42 km/h 1.9 mm Very low 2
15 Jun 14.4 °C 47 % 48 km/h 2.8 mm Very low 2
16 Jun 17.5 °C 47 % 28 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 2
17 Jun 20.5 °C 42 % 19 km/h 0.8 mm Very low 3
18 Jun 20.8 °C 48 % 27 km/h 1.9 mm Very low 2
19 Jun after 17.1 °C 51 % 31 km/h 3.0 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Apr 2016
After · 25 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 · 1,886Every 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 5 May 2016 to 18 June 2016 (45 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 May 2016 to 17 June 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 20,858 hectares (208.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bauntovsky Rayon (21,401 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 24.8 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, 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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 17 June 2016 → 18 June 2016.
  2. Start date: 12 May 2016 → 5 May 2016.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 12 May 2016 to 17 June 2016. 1,886 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.