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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 24 June 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 6 Aug 2016, 21:01 UTC

The fire started on 24 June 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 44 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 45,607 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 16th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 17 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
45,607ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
44days
24 Jun 2016 – 6 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
24 Jun
2016
Heat detections
4,825
in a single hotspot: 191 MW
Danger at start
7
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
679MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Jun6 Aug
6 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

24 Jun 2016 · 1 MW · 1 25 Jun 2016 · 26 MW · 9 26 Jun 2016 · 36 MW · 13 27 Jun 2016 · 140 MW · 30 28 Jun 2016 · 1,445 MW · 157 29 Jun 2016 · 770 MW · 126 30 Jun 2016 · 297 MW · 36 1 Jul 2016 · 391 MW · 64 2 Jul 2016 · 1,560 MW · 133 3 Jul 2016 · 539 MW · 86 5 Jul 2016 · 132 MW · 79 6 Jul 2016 · 638 MW · 153 7 Jul 2016 · 4,493 MW · 343 8 Jul 2016 · 305 MW · 172 9 Jul 2016 · 1,394 MW · 157 10 Jul 2016 · 1 MW · 1 11 Jul 2016 · 9 MW · 7 12 Jul 2016 · 196 MW · 37 13 Jul 2016 · 606 MW · 153 14 Jul 2016 · 1,052 MW · 296 15 Jul 2016 · 661 MW · 146 16 Jul 2016 · 371 MW · 134 17 Jul 2016 · 3,040 MW · 495 18 Jul 2016 · 211 MW · 107 19 Jul 2016 · 1,220 MW · 254 20 Jul 2016 · 336 MW · 140 21 Jul 2016 · 380 MW · 155 22 Jul 2016 · 2,784 MW · 493 23 Jul 2016 · 379 MW · 136 24 Jul 2016 · 337 MW · 155 25 Jul 2016 · 204 MW · 48 26 Jul 2016 · 101 MW · 18 27 Jul 2016 · 320 MW · 112 29 Jul 2016 · 59 MW · 21 30 Jul 2016 · 1,760 MW · 49 2 Aug 2016 · 106 MW · 14 3 Aug 2016 · 393 MW · 68 4 Aug 2016 · 299 MW · 132 5 Aug 2016 · 11 MW · 13 6 Aug 2016 · 140 MW · 82
24 Jun 30 Jun 7 Jul 13 Jul 19 Jul 25 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

31°high
52km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.2 mm on 7 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 29% of the area of London (456 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
    39,578 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)
24 Jun 27.4 °C 40 % 41 km/h 4.0 mm Low 7
25 Jun 22.8 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
26 Jun 23.8 °C 31 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
27 Jun 27.3 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Jun 28.3 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 Jun 30.3 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
30 Jun 31.0 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Jul 30.5 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.2 mm High 26
2 Jul 31.2 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 31
3 Jul 24.4 °C 48 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
4 Jul 22.8 °C 47 % 34 km/h 0.3 mm High 21
5 Jul 21.8 °C 43 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
6 Jul 23.7 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Jul 25.0 °C 31 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Jul 25.2 °C 36 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Jul 26.5 °C 52 % 29 km/h 6.6 mm Very low 3
10 Jul 22.0 °C 52 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
11 Jul 23.8 °C 40 % 37 km/h 1.2 mm Low 10
12 Jul 18.8 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
13 Jul 20.9 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
14 Jul 24.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
15 Jul 24.3 °C 30 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
16 Jul 19.2 °C 54 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
17 Jul 21.9 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jul 20.0 °C 48 % 52 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
19 Jul 24.6 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
20 Jul 25.1 °C 33 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
21 Jul 24.7 °C 50 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
22 Jul 25.0 °C 41 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jul 24.6 °C 44 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
24 Jul 26.0 °C 47 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
25 Jul 26.9 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
26 Jul 27.8 °C 52 % 24 km/h 1.4 mm Moderate 12
27 Jul 26.4 °C 61 % 20 km/h 1.3 mm Low 7
28 Jul 22.8 °C 62 % 39 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 14
29 Jul 22.7 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
30 Jul 25.0 °C 43 % 29 km/h 2.4 mm Low 8
31 Jul 20.7 °C 68 % 37 km/h 4.1 mm Very low 3
1 Aug 20.9 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
2 Aug 20.0 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
3 Aug 22.8 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
4 Aug 23.4 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
5 Aug 21.9 °C 50 % 36 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 21
6 Aug 28.0 °C 50 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 20
7 Aug after 28.6 °C 46 % 26 km/h 3.2 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Jun 2016
After · 13 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 · 4,825Every 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 24 June 2016 to 6 August 2016 (44 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 June 2016 to 30 July 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 45,607 hectares (456.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (39,578 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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: 30 July 2016 → 6 August 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 24 June 2016 to 30 July 2016. 4,825 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.