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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 21 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon, Boguchansky Rayon

Out · last detection 2 Jul 2016, 06:29 UTC

The fire started on 21 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,354 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 185th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 201 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Suggestions: Evenkiysky Rayon · 2018Boguchansky Rayon · 2018Boguchansky Rayon · 2016Boguchansky Rayon · 2019

Burnt area
10,354ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
21 Jun 2016 – 2 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
21 Jun
2016
Heat detections
893
in a single hotspot: 230 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index
Average daily power
954MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jun2 Jul
2 Jul 2016

How it evolved, day by day

21 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 6 22 Jun 2016 · 864 MW · 43 23 Jun 2016 · 54 MW · 15 24 Jun 2016 · 19 MW · 12 25 Jun 2016 · 51 MW · 17 26 Jun 2016 · 118 MW · 29 27 Jun 2016 · 601 MW · 112 28 Jun 2016 · 3,103 MW · 191 29 Jun 2016 · 5,307 MW · 396 30 Jun 2016 · 362 MW · 71 2 Jul 2016 · 4 MW · 1
21 Jun 23 Jun 25 Jun 27 Jun 29 Jun 2 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

29°high
43km/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: 16.7 mm on 3 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 6.5% of the area of London (104 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
    6,594 ha reached on 21 Jun
    0.0 %
  2. Boguchansky Rayon
    2,706 ha reached on 24 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)
14 Jun 26.7 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
15 Jun 22.8 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
16 Jun 21.2 °C 39 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 21
17 Jun 18.7 °C 56 % 32 km/h 1.8 mm Very low 4
18 Jun 20.8 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
19 Jun 18.9 °C 29 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
20 Jun 23.0 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
21 Jun 24.9 °C 22 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
22 Jun 27.2 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
23 Jun 27.4 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.4 mm High 23
24 Jun 27.5 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
25 Jun 23.7 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jun 24.7 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
27 Jun 27.0 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Jun 28.1 °C 22 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jun 29.0 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 Jun 29.0 °C 31 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
1 Jul 26.8 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul 26.8 °C 42 % 39 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 17
3 Jul after 21.8 °C 64 % 37 km/h 16.7 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jun 2016
After · 9 Jul 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 · 893Every 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 21 June 2016 and 2 July 2016: 12 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 10,354 hectares (103.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Evenkiysky Rayon (6,594 ha, 0.0 %); Boguchansky Rayon (2,706 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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. 893 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.