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Boguchansky Rayon fire, July 2016 Boguchansky Rayon

Out · last detection 25 Jul 2016, 19:46 UTC

The fire started on 15 July 2016 in Boguchansky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,157 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 339th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 338 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
6,157ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
15 Jul 2016 – 25 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
15 Jul
2016
Heat detections
964
in a single hotspot: 72 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
380MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Jul25 Jul
25 Jul 2016

How it evolved, day by day

15 Jul 2016 · 29 MW · 14 16 Jul 2016 · 62 MW · 26 17 Jul 2016 · 480 MW · 96 18 Jul 2016 · 292 MW · 107 19 Jul 2016 · 695 MW · 125 20 Jul 2016 · 463 MW · 99 21 Jul 2016 · 518 MW · 92 22 Jul 2016 · 923 MW · 165 23 Jul 2016 · 65 MW · 43 24 Jul 2016 · 430 MW · 131 25 Jul 2016 · 220 MW · 66
15 Jul 17 Jul 19 Jul 21 Jul 22 Jul 23 Jul 25 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

26°high
48km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.2 mm on 26 Jul.

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 3.9% of the area of London (62 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. Boguchansky Rayon where it started
    6,283 ha
    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)
15 Jul 24.0 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
16 Jul 21.0 °C 46 % 48 km/h 0.4 mm High 23
17 Jul 22.9 °C 28 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Jul 19.3 °C 44 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
19 Jul 24.1 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
20 Jul 24.7 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
21 Jul 24.5 °C 50 % 19 km/h 1.6 mm Low 7
22 Jul 25.2 °C 37 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
23 Jul 24.6 °C 46 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Jul 26.1 °C 43 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
25 Jul 23.8 °C 54 % 38 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 16
26 Jul after 25.1 °C 64 % 29 km/h 4.2 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jul 2016
After · 1 Aug 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 · 964Every 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 Boguchansky Rayon fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 15 July 2016 and 25 July 2016: 11 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 6,157 hectares (61.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Boguchansky Rayon (6,283 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.1 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 964 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.