How long did the Bauntovsky Rayon fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 June 2024 and 13 July 2024: 24 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 87,763 hectares (877.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bauntovsky Rayon (67,503 ha, 1.0 %); Tungokochensky District (21,695 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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 · 2024-06-20 → 2024-07-13

Bauntovsky Rayon fire, 20 June 2024 Bauntovsky Rayon, Tungokochensky District

Out · last detection 9 Jul 2024, 18:18 UTC

The fire started on 20 June 2024 in Bauntovsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 87,763 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Buryatia since 2016 (of 198 with a page). Number 4 in Russia in 2024, of 558.

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Burnt area: 87,763ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 24days; 20 Jun 2024 – 13 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 20 Jun; 2024
Heat detections: 10,146; in a single hotspot: 444 MW
Danger at start: 14; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 4.1GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jun13 Jul

Play back 9 Jul 2024

How it evolved, day by day

20 Jun 23 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 2 Jul 5 Jul 8 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

34°high

61km/h · peak gust

17%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 28.8 mm on 14 Jul.

This area had burned before

4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 202 ha in 2018, 4,043 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,828 ha that had burned before.

292 ha Bauntovsky Rayon fire, July 2019 20,227 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 55% of the area of London (878 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

Bauntovsky Rayon where it started

67,503 ha reached on 20 Jun

1.0 %
Tungokochensky District

21,695 ha reached on 24 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)
16 Jun	13.9 °C	31 %	61 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
17 Jun	16.2 °C	38 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
18 Jun	18.0 °C	29 %	42 km/h	1.8 mm	Low 6
19 Jun	19.7 °C	29 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
20 Jun	24.0 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
21 Jun	25.5 °C	21 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
22 Jun	25.6 °C	23 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
23 Jun	27.3 °C	17 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
24 Jun	27.4 °C	25 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
25 Jun	26.6 °C	28 %	28 km/h	0.4 mm	High 24
26 Jun	28.2 °C	25 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
27 Jun	23.8 °C	41 %	36 km/h	3.0 mm	Very low 5
28 Jun	24.9 °C	29 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
29 Jun	24.8 °C	32 %	45 km/h	0.3 mm	High 22
30 Jun	25.8 °C	39 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
1 Jul	29.8 °C	29 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
2 Jul	32.3 °C	20 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
3 Jul	32.9 °C	19 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
4 Jul	33.5 °C	21 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
5 Jul	32.5 °C	23 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
6 Jul	25.5 °C	33 %	28 km/h	0.1 mm	High 28
7 Jul	27.6 °C	29 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
8 Jul	30.4 °C	30 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
9 Jul	31.5 °C	28 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
10 Jul	30.3 °C	32 %	50 km/h	6.5 mm	Low 11
11 Jul	27.3 °C	39 %	31 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 16
12 Jul	28.5 °C	37 %	22 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 18
13 Jul	24.1 °C	61 %	46 km/h	49.1 mm	Very low 0
14 Jul after	19.1 °C	84 %	24 km/h	28.8 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 13 Jun 2024

After · 20 Jul 2024

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 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 2,950 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 1,032: 69 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak2,950 µg/m³

Days over the guideline26 days

PM103,055 µg/m³

Optical depth8.84

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 · 10,146Every 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 20 June 2024 and 13 July 2024: 24 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 87,763 hectares (877.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bauntovsky Rayon (67,503 ha, 1.0 %); Tungokochensky District (21,695 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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 ›

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 10,146 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.

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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