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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 28 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2016, 06:04 UTC

The fire started on 28 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 33 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 24,324 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 45th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 55 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
24,324ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
33days
28 Jun 2016 – 30 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
28 Jun
2016
Heat detections
3,134
in a single hotspot: 196 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Average daily power
525MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun30 Jul
30 Jul 2016

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jun 2016 · 32 MW · 12 29 Jun 2016 · 109 MW · 22 1 Jul 2016 · 103 MW · 25 2 Jul 2016 · 2,094 MW · 94 3 Jul 2016 · 598 MW · 68 5 Jul 2016 · 98 MW · 55 6 Jul 2016 · 275 MW · 81 7 Jul 2016 · 734 MW · 126 8 Jul 2016 · 189 MW · 84 9 Jul 2016 · 484 MW · 67 11 Jul 2016 · 111 MW · 32 12 Jul 2016 · 383 MW · 48 13 Jul 2016 · 625 MW · 123 14 Jul 2016 · 1,067 MW · 224 15 Jul 2016 · 534 MW · 141 16 Jul 2016 · 784 MW · 167 17 Jul 2016 · 1,159 MW · 203 18 Jul 2016 · 165 MW · 98 19 Jul 2016 · 1,299 MW · 274 20 Jul 2016 · 750 MW · 234 21 Jul 2016 · 412 MW · 151 22 Jul 2016 · 1,893 MW · 405 23 Jul 2016 · 169 MW · 103 24 Jul 2016 · 312 MW · 119 25 Jul 2016 · 109 MW · 41 26 Jul 2016 · 36 MW · 10 27 Jul 2016 · 706 MW · 125 28 Jul 2016 · 1 MW · 1 30 Jul 2016 · 4 MW · 1
28 Jun 2 Jul 5 Jul 11 Jul 16 Jul 21 Jul 26 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

31°high
50km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.5 mm on 31 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 15% of the area of London (243 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
    21,178 ha reached on 28 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)
28 Jun 28.7 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 Jun 30.3 °C 24 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
30 Jun 30.4 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Jul 30.3 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Jul 31.2 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jul 25.2 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
4 Jul 23.0 °C 44 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm High 23
5 Jul 22.2 °C 36 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
6 Jul 23.8 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 Jul 25.1 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Jul 25.6 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Jul 26.3 °C 53 % 29 km/h 5.3 mm Very low 4
10 Jul 22.4 °C 50 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
11 Jul 24.0 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 17
12 Jul 19.5 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
13 Jul 20.9 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
14 Jul 24.1 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
15 Jul 23.8 °C 33 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
16 Jul 19.2 °C 52 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Jul 22.2 °C 31 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jul 20.1 °C 43 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Jul 25.3 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
20 Jul 25.4 °C 33 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Jul 24.5 °C 53 % 27 km/h 2.2 mm Low 6
22 Jul 25.7 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
23 Jul 24.6 °C 45 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Jul 26.2 °C 46 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jul 26.5 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
26 Jul 27.6 °C 52 % 24 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 13
27 Jul 26.5 °C 58 % 21 km/h 1.0 mm Low 9
28 Jul 22.9 °C 62 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 15
29 Jul 23.5 °C 42 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
30 Jul 25.5 °C 41 % 31 km/h 1.9 mm Low 10
31 Jul after 20.5 °C 69 % 37 km/h 3.5 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2016
After · 6 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 · 3,134Every 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 28 June 2016 to 30 July 2016 (33 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 June 2016 to 27 July 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 24,324 hectares (243.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (21,178 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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. Last day with fire: 27 July 2016 → 30 July 2016.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 28 June 2016 to 27 July 2016. 3,134 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.