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Dalmatovsky District fire, 5 May 2021 Kataysky District, Dalmatovsky District, Kamyshlovsky District

Out · last detection 11 May 2021, 20:56 UTC

The fire started on 5 May 2021 in Dalmatovsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,617 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 14th largest in Kurgan Oblast since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 276 in Russia in 2021, of 581.

Burnt area
6,617ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
5 May 2021 – 11 May 2021
Municipalities hit
3
districts
Started on
5 May
2021
Heat detections
300
in a single hotspot: 153 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 May 2021
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 May11 May

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

29°high
62km/h · peak gust
5%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Kataysky District
    5,363 ha reached on 5 May
    2.0 %
  2. Dalmatovsky District where it started
    974 ha reached on 5 May
    0.3 %
  3. Kamyshlovsky District
    311 ha reached on 5 May
    0.1 %

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)
5 May 28.8 °C 9 % 62 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
6 May 13.2 °C 27 % 60 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 16
7 May 22.6 °C 14 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
8 May 25.4 °C 5 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 May 25.1 °C 8 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 May 21.7 °C 11 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 May 24.3 °C 7 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 May after 24.9 °C 18 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
13 May after 30.0 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
14 May after 32.6 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 May after 33.4 °C 10 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 May after 34.8 °C 7 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
17 May after 33.3 °C 12 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
18 May after 25.2 °C 30 % 46 km/h 0.8 mm High 31
19 May after 21.3 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 May after 26.4 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 May after 30.1 °C 11 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Apr 2021
After · 18 May 2021

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 · 300Every 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 Dalmatovsky District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 May 2021 and 11 May 2021: 7 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 6,617 hectares (66.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Kataysky District (5,363 ha, 2.0 %); Dalmatovsky District (974 ha, 0.3 %); Kamyshlovsky District (311 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.8 °C, humidity dropped to 5 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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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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.