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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 30 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 3 Aug 2016, 20:17 UTC

The fire started on 30 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 34 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 42,945 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 18th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 21 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
42,945ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
34days
30 Jun 2016 – 2 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Jun
2016
Heat detections
7,241
in a single hotspot: 430 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index
Average daily power
2.1GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jun2 Aug
3 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

30 Jun 2016 · 32 MW · 15 1 Jul 2016 · 17 MW · 8 2 Jul 2016 · 885 MW · 94 3 Jul 2016 · 990 MW · 142 4 Jul 2016 · 1,203 MW · 100 5 Jul 2016 · 2,029 MW · 353 6 Jul 2016 · 4,527 MW · 400 7 Jul 2016 · 12,809 MW · 1057 8 Jul 2016 · 1,828 MW · 226 9 Jul 2016 · 2,914 MW · 219 10 Jul 2016 · 30 MW · 27 11 Jul 2016 · 359 MW · 130 12 Jul 2016 · 1,522 MW · 286 13 Jul 2016 · 1,080 MW · 138 14 Jul 2016 · 10,829 MW · 1017 15 Jul 2016 · 265 MW · 75 16 Jul 2016 · 4 MW · 3 17 Jul 2016 · 60 MW · 9 18 Jul 2016 · 116 MW · 14 19 Jul 2016 · 1,355 MW · 464 20 Jul 2016 · 2,203 MW · 373 21 Jul 2016 · 278 MW · 131 22 Jul 2016 · 3,020 MW · 230 23 Jul 2016 · 1,727 MW · 271 24 Jul 2016 · 118 MW · 68 25 Jul 2016 · 12,060 MW · 490 26 Jul 2016 · 1,571 MW · 197 28 Jul 2016 · 12 MW · 10 29 Jul 2016 · 13 MW · 9 30 Jul 2016 · 224 MW · 31 1 Aug 2016 · 91 MW · 40 2 Aug 2016 · 1,163 MW · 208 3 Aug 2016 · 5,507 MW · 406
30 Jun 5 Jul 7 Jul 10 Jul 15 Jul 20 Jul 25 Jul 1 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
53km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.9 mm on 5 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 27% of the area of London (429 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
    39,037 ha reached on 30 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)
30 Jun 31.8 °C 25 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Jul 32.3 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul 28.9 °C 34 % 47 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 14
3 Jul 20.3 °C 50 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
4 Jul 22.9 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
5 Jul 24.0 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
6 Jul 23.7 °C 28 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 Jul 25.7 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Jul 25.8 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Jul 26.3 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
10 Jul 20.8 °C 57 % 44 km/h 7.6 mm Very low 2
11 Jul 20.3 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
12 Jul 18.2 °C 32 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
13 Jul 20.0 °C 34 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
14 Jul 24.9 °C 28 % 35 km/h 1.4 mm Moderate 13
15 Jul 21.4 °C 44 % 23 km/h 3.4 mm Very low 4
16 Jul 15.8 °C 58 % 49 km/h 2.5 mm Very low 4
17 Jul 19.0 °C 41 % 44 km/h 1.3 mm Low 5
18 Jul 18.6 °C 49 % 53 km/h 0.6 mm Low 9
19 Jul 23.2 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
20 Jul 22.9 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 14
21 Jul 23.2 °C 37 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 15
22 Jul 24.9 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Jul 25.1 °C 39 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Jul 26.9 °C 39 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
25 Jul 27.2 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
26 Jul 28.0 °C 35 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
27 Jul 24.2 °C 61 % 23 km/h 2.8 mm Very low 3
28 Jul 25.9 °C 58 % 35 km/h 6.5 mm Very low 2
29 Jul 20.5 °C 49 % 39 km/h 0.5 mm Low 5
30 Jul 24.2 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
31 Jul 20.5 °C 69 % 35 km/h 5.6 mm Very low 1
1 Aug 19.6 °C 43 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm Very low 4
2 Aug 18.8 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
3 Aug after 21.9 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
4 Aug after 20.1 °C 49 % 37 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 14
5 Aug after 18.1 °C 54 % 27 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jun 2016
After · 9 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 · 7,241Every 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 30 June 2016 to 2 August 2016 (34 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 June 2016 to 26 July 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 42,945 hectares (429.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (39,037 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.3 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 53 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 ›

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: 26 July 2016 → 2 August 2016.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 4 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 30 June 2016 to 26 July 2016. 7,241 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.