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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 30 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

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

The fire started on 30 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 45,168 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 17th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 18 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
45,168ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
31days
30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Jun
2016
Heat detections
6,246
in a single hotspot: 185 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Average daily power
1.1GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jun30 Jul
30 Jul 2016

How it evolved, day by day

30 Jun 2016 · 3 MW · 2 1 Jul 2016 · 8 MW · 1 2 Jul 2016 · 595 MW · 66 3 Jul 2016 · 261 MW · 71 5 Jul 2016 · 788 MW · 166 6 Jul 2016 · 2,536 MW · 108 7 Jul 2016 · 680 MW · 116 8 Jul 2016 · 240 MW · 131 9 Jul 2016 · 9 MW · 5 10 Jul 2016 · 22 MW · 19 11 Jul 2016 · 173 MW · 35 12 Jul 2016 · 619 MW · 98 13 Jul 2016 · 733 MW · 216 14 Jul 2016 · 2,115 MW · 335 15 Jul 2016 · 587 MW · 164 16 Jul 2016 · 782 MW · 234 17 Jul 2016 · 5,411 MW · 490 18 Jul 2016 · 3,692 MW · 729 19 Jul 2016 · 1,662 MW · 454 20 Jul 2016 · 429 MW · 224 21 Jul 2016 · 1,052 MW · 257 22 Jul 2016 · 3,038 MW · 494 23 Jul 2016 · 3,934 MW · 850 24 Jul 2016 · 1,633 MW · 426 25 Jul 2016 · 563 MW · 206 26 Jul 2016 · 1,167 MW · 280 27 Jul 2016 · 254 MW · 35 29 Jul 2016 · 161 MW · 26 30 Jul 2016 · 44 MW · 8
30 Jun 6 Jul 11 Jul 16 Jul 17 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

30°high
48km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 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 29% of the area of London (452 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
    41,356 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 30.5 °C 22 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
1 Jul 30.0 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jul 28.8 °C 32 % 42 km/h 1.6 mm Moderate 20
3 Jul 24.9 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Jul 22.3 °C 43 % 40 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 15
5 Jul 25.3 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
6 Jul 24.7 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
7 Jul 24.6 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
8 Jul 26.3 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Jul 24.3 °C 52 % 30 km/h 8.0 mm Very low 3
10 Jul 24.5 °C 31 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
11 Jul 21.7 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
12 Jul 19.1 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
13 Jul 20.7 °C 30 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
14 Jul 23.5 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
15 Jul 23.6 °C 36 % 23 km/h 2.1 mm Low 8
16 Jul 19.3 °C 38 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
17 Jul 21.4 °C 30 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
18 Jul 21.1 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Jul 24.7 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
20 Jul 24.7 °C 40 % 27 km/h 1.7 mm Low 10
21 Jul 23.9 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
22 Jul 26.9 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
23 Jul 28.5 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
24 Jul 28.7 °C 33 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
25 Jul 27.4 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
26 Jul 25.2 °C 59 % 33 km/h 2.0 mm Low 6
27 Jul 25.4 °C 51 % 24 km/h 5.1 mm Very low 3
28 Jul 20.9 °C 66 % 40 km/h 6.2 mm Very low 1
29 Jul 21.3 °C 47 % 47 km/h 2.4 mm Very low 3
30 Jul 22.1 °C 51 % 24 km/h 0.6 mm Very low 5
31 Jul after 20.9 °C 60 % 30 km/h 2.5 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 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 · 6,246Every 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?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 June 2016 and 30 July 2016: 31 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 45,168 hectares (451.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (41,356 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.5 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 48 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 ›

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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. 6,246 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.