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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 2 July 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

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

The fire started on 2 July 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 36 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 27,610 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 36th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 48 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
27,610ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
36days
2 Jul 2016 – 6 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Jul
2016
Heat detections
4,464
in a single hotspot: 113 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Average daily power
767MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jul6 Aug
6 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

2 Jul 2016 · 409 MW · 69 3 Jul 2016 · 274 MW · 25 5 Jul 2016 · 12 MW · 7 6 Jul 2016 · 388 MW · 60 7 Jul 2016 · 645 MW · 67 8 Jul 2016 · 1 MW · 1 9 Jul 2016 · 62 MW · 3 12 Jul 2016 · 37 MW · 10 13 Jul 2016 · 736 MW · 99 14 Jul 2016 · 337 MW · 116 15 Jul 2016 · 412 MW · 112 16 Jul 2016 · 536 MW · 106 17 Jul 2016 · 3,353 MW · 516 18 Jul 2016 · 1,147 MW · 365 19 Jul 2016 · 1,412 MW · 357 20 Jul 2016 · 1,703 MW · 258 21 Jul 2016 · 1,622 MW · 317 22 Jul 2016 · 5,147 MW · 744 23 Jul 2016 · 198 MW · 134 24 Jul 2016 · 1,859 MW · 384 25 Jul 2016 · 708 MW · 226 26 Jul 2016 · 37 MW · 7 27 Jul 2016 · 78 MW · 15 29 Jul 2016 · 16 MW · 12 30 Jul 2016 · 142 MW · 29 1 Aug 2016 · 5 MW · 3 2 Aug 2016 · 116 MW · 18 3 Aug 2016 · 430 MW · 95 5 Aug 2016 · 40 MW · 32 6 Aug 2016 · 1,136 MW · 277
2 Jul 8 Jul 15 Jul 20 Jul 22 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

30°high
50km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.0 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 17% of the area of London (276 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
    24,422 ha reached on 2 Jul
    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)
2 Jul 29.8 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.8 mm High 26
3 Jul 25.2 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm High 28
4 Jul 19.8 °C 58 % 37 km/h 2.2 mm Low 6
5 Jul 22.9 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
6 Jul 24.3 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Jul 24.4 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Jul 25.5 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 23
9 Jul 25.2 °C 55 % 28 km/h 7.1 mm Very low 2
10 Jul 24.2 °C 35 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
11 Jul 23.7 °C 38 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
12 Jul 20.7 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
13 Jul 21.8 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
14 Jul 23.7 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
15 Jul 23.6 °C 33 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
16 Jul 19.4 °C 47 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 Jul 22.6 °C 28 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Jul 20.5 °C 36 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
19 Jul 25.3 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
20 Jul 24.9 °C 40 % 24 km/h 3.9 mm Very low 4
21 Jul 22.6 °C 54 % 24 km/h 1.5 mm Very low 5
22 Jul 25.7 °C 40 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
23 Jul 24.8 °C 44 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Jul 25.1 °C 47 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
25 Jul 23.9 °C 54 % 38 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 19
26 Jul 25.4 °C 61 % 31 km/h 2.8 mm Very low 4
27 Jul 25.5 °C 53 % 30 km/h 1.9 mm Very low 5
28 Jul 21.3 °C 60 % 42 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 5
29 Jul 22.6 °C 48 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
30 Jul 24.5 °C 45 % 32 km/h 2.0 mm Low 6
31 Jul 19.5 °C 64 % 30 km/h 0.7 mm Low 6
1 Aug 20.0 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
2 Aug 19.3 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
3 Aug 22.8 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
4 Aug 21.7 °C 44 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 21
5 Aug 19.9 °C 64 % 20 km/h 0.9 mm Low 8
6 Aug 28.1 °C 49 % 47 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
7 Aug after 24.3 °C 64 % 28 km/h 6.0 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 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 · 4,464Every 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 2 July 2016 to 6 August 2016 (36 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 July 2016 to 30 July 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 27,610 hectares (276.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (24,422 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.8 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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 · 2 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.
  2. Start date: 9 July 2016 → 2 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 9 July 2016 to 30 July 2016. 4,464 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.