How long did the Bauntovsky Rayon fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 31 March 2017 and 2 April 2017: 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 3,065 hectares (30.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Bauntovsky Rayon (2,994 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 15.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, 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.

RU · Russia · 2017-03-31 → 2017-04-02

Bauntovsky Rayon fire, March 2017 Bauntovsky Rayon

Out · last detection 3 Apr 2017, 03:49 UTC

The fire started on 31 March 2017 in Bauntovsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,065 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 192th largest in Buryatia since 2016 (of 200 with a page). Number 361 in Russia in 2017, of 369.

Burnt area: 3,065ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 3days; 31 Mar 2017 – 2 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 31 Mar; 2017
Heat detections: 130; in a single hotspot: 67 MW
Danger at start: 7; Low · FWI index
Energy released: 1.5GW; sum of detected power

Play back 3 Apr 2017

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 Mar2 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

15°high

49km/h · peak gust

11%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 3 Apr.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 178 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

Bauntovsky Rayon where it started

2,994 ha reached on 31 Mar

0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

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)
31 Mar	12.7 °C	17 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
1 Apr	11.5 °C	11 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
2 Apr	15.4 °C	17 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
3 Apr after	10.5 °C	30 %	34 km/h	1.3 mm	Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 24 Mar 2017

After · 9 Apr 2017

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.

Detections table · 130Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bauntovsky Rayon fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 31 March 2017 and 2 April 2017: 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 3,065 hectares (30.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Bauntovsky Rayon (2,994 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 15.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, 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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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