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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 19 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 3 Aug 2016, 06:30 UTC

The fire started on 19 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 46 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 22,611 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

It is the 51th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 60 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
22,611ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
46days
19 Jun 2016 – 3 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
19 Jun
2016
Heat detections
2,991
in a single hotspot: 146 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
478MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Jun3 Aug
3 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

19 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 3 21 Jun 2016 · 116 MW · 13 23 Jun 2016 · 20 MW · 3 26 Jun 2016 · 11 MW · 5 27 Jun 2016 · 527 MW · 31 28 Jun 2016 · 403 MW · 60 29 Jun 2016 · 271 MW · 32 30 Jun 2016 · 318 MW · 101 1 Jul 2016 · 12 MW · 3 2 Jul 2016 · 7 MW · 1 3 Jul 2016 · 1 MW · 1 4 Jul 2016 · 136 MW · 23 5 Jul 2016 · 1,319 MW · 190 6 Jul 2016 · 842 MW · 142 7 Jul 2016 · 1,779 MW · 257 8 Jul 2016 · 2,231 MW · 117 9 Jul 2016 · 595 MW · 37 10 Jul 2016 · 0 MW · 1 11 Jul 2016 · 87 MW · 36 12 Jul 2016 · 253 MW · 71 13 Jul 2016 · 288 MW · 36 14 Jul 2016 · 338 MW · 40 16 Jul 2016 · 4 MW · 2 17 Jul 2016 · 3 MW · 1 18 Jul 2016 · 144 MW · 45 19 Jul 2016 · 884 MW · 236 20 Jul 2016 · 374 MW · 142 21 Jul 2016 · 572 MW · 73 22 Jul 2016 · 360 MW · 150 23 Jul 2016 · 1,709 MW · 234 24 Jul 2016 · 815 MW · 216 25 Jul 2016 · 504 MW · 52 26 Jul 2016 · 58 MW · 13 27 Jul 2016 · 6 MW · 2 28 Jul 2016 · 10 MW · 7 29 Jul 2016 · 82 MW · 32 30 Jul 2016 · 121 MW · 23 31 Jul 2016 · 8 MW · 10 1 Aug 2016 · 253 MW · 77 2 Aug 2016 · 300 MW · 120 3 Aug 2016 · 3,828 MW · 353
19 Jun 29 Jun 5 Jul 11 Jul 18 Jul 24 Jul 30 Jul 3 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
55km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 4 Aug.

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 14% of the area of London (226 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. Evenkiysky Rayon where it started
    21,207 ha reached on 19 Jun
    0.0 %

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)
19 Jun 18.5 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
20 Jun 20.1 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
21 Jun 24.8 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
22 Jun 24.3 °C 38 % 47 km/h 2.0 mm Low 9
23 Jun 20.5 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
24 Jun 23.1 °C 35 % 46 km/h 3.9 mm Very low 5
25 Jun 20.6 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
26 Jun 22.8 °C 23 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
27 Jun 27.7 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
28 Jun 30.5 °C 23 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 Jun 31.4 °C 21 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
30 Jun 32.2 °C 22 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
1 Jul 32.5 °C 21 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
2 Jul 24.0 °C 54 % 45 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 4
3 Jul 19.0 °C 46 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
4 Jul 23.0 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
5 Jul 23.9 °C 23 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
6 Jul 23.7 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
7 Jul 25.3 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Jul 25.9 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Jul 25.6 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
10 Jul 20.7 °C 43 % 41 km/h 7.0 mm Very low 4
11 Jul 17.2 °C 35 % 52 km/h 0.1 mm Low 9
12 Jul 16.6 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
13 Jul 19.9 °C 35 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
14 Jul 23.0 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 14
15 Jul 17.3 °C 67 % 27 km/h 4.3 mm Very low 1
16 Jul 17.1 °C 49 % 55 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 5
17 Jul 18.1 °C 42 % 45 km/h 0.7 mm Low 8
18 Jul 20.5 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 16
19 Jul 23.5 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Jul 21.3 °C 44 % 26 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 15
21 Jul 21.6 °C 36 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
22 Jul 23.5 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jul 25.7 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Jul 26.2 °C 37 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
25 Jul 26.7 °C 34 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
26 Jul 26.8 °C 37 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
27 Jul 21.7 °C 73 % 19 km/h 15.0 mm Very low 0
28 Jul 25.2 °C 50 % 36 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 1
29 Jul 19.5 °C 52 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm Very low 3
30 Jul 22.1 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
31 Jul 18.1 °C 63 % 30 km/h 4.4 mm Very low 1
1 Aug 18.2 °C 34 % 40 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 4
2 Aug 16.3 °C 39 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
3 Aug 20.6 °C 33 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
4 Aug after 17.5 °C 61 % 35 km/h 2.8 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Jun 2016
After · 10 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 · 2,991Every 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 Evenkiysky Rayon fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 19 June 2016 to 3 August 2016 (46 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 June 2016 to 3 August 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 22,611 hectares (226.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (21,207 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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 ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Start date: 26 June 2016 → 19 June 2016.

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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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 26 June 2016 to 3 August 2016. 2,991 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.