How long did the Boguchansky Rayon fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 June 2016 and 3 July 2016: 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 72,939 hectares (729.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Boguchansky Rayon (50,837 ha, 1.0 %); Evenkiysky Rayon (20,442 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 43 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 · 2016-06-10 → 2016-07-03

Boguchansky Rayon fire, 10 June 2016 Boguchansky Rayon, Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 3 Jul 2016, 06:10 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2016 in Boguchansky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 72,939 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 7th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 9 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area: 72,939ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 24days; 10 Jun 2016 – 3 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 10 Jun; 2016
Heat detections: 6,913; in a single hotspot: 381 MW
Danger at start: 15; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 3.8GW; detected power per day, on average

Play back 3 Jul 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun3 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

10 Jun 14 Jun 18 Jun 22 Jun 26 Jun 30 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

30°high

43km/h · peak gust

22%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.6 mm on 4 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 46% of the area of London (729 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

Boguchansky Rayon where it started

50,837 ha

1.0 %
Evenkiysky Rayon

20,442 ha

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)
10 Jun	26.4 °C	28 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
11 Jun	27.0 °C	32 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
12 Jun	28.0 °C	30 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
13 Jun	26.9 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 18
14 Jun	22.8 °C	24 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 21
15 Jun	21.1 °C	32 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
16 Jun	22.6 °C	34 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
17 Jun	17.2 °C	55 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
18 Jun	19.8 °C	25 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
19 Jun	18.0 °C	30 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
20 Jun	20.9 °C	28 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
21 Jun	22.6 °C	27 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
22 Jun	27.0 °C	26 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
23 Jun	26.7 °C	38 %	28 km/h	1.5 mm	Low 10
24 Jun	27.0 °C	33 %	41 km/h	1.4 mm	Moderate 15
25 Jun	22.6 °C	32 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
26 Jun	22.4 °C	30 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
27 Jun	25.4 °C	29 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
28 Jun	26.8 °C	25 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
29 Jun	28.8 °C	24 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
30 Jun	30.0 °C	22 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
1 Jul	29.8 °C	24 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
2 Jul	29.3 °C	28 %	37 km/h	0.2 mm	High 34
3 Jul	25.5 °C	45 %	42 km/h	0.3 mm	High 29
4 Jul after	20.2 °C	61 %	31 km/h	7.6 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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Before · 3 Jun 2016

After · 10 Jul 2016

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 · 6,913Every 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 Boguchansky Rayon fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 June 2016 and 3 July 2016: 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 72,939 hectares (729.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Boguchansky Rayon (50,837 ha, 1.0 %); Evenkiysky Rayon (20,442 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 43 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

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 5 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 6,913 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.

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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