How long did the Evenkiysky Rayon fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 July 2016 and 27 July 2016: 26 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 89,350 hectares (893.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (82,758 ha, 0.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 46 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.

RU · Russia · 2016-07-02 → 2016-07-27

Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 2 July 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 27 Jul 2016, 05:21 UTC

The fire started on 2 July 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 26 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 89,350 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 4th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 6 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area: 89,350ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 26days; 2 Jul 2016 – 27 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 2 Jul; 2016
Heat detections: 11,977; in a single hotspot: 380 MW
Danger at start: 22; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 3.3GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jul27 Jul

Play back 27 Jul 2016

How it evolved, day by day

2 Jul 6 Jul 10 Jul 14 Jul 18 Jul 22 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

29°high

46km/h · peak gust

23%lowest humidity

It had gone 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.2 mm on 28 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 56% of the area of London (894 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

Evenkiysky Rayon where it started

82,758 ha reached on 2 Jul

0.1 %

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	28.0 °C	34 %	46 km/h	1.3 mm	High 22
3 Jul	24.1 °C	41 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
4 Jul	21.9 °C	42 %	39 km/h	0.4 mm	High 22
5 Jul	25.0 °C	24 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
6 Jul	24.2 °C	23 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
7 Jul	23.7 °C	25 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
8 Jul	26.0 °C	30 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
9 Jul	23.0 °C	50 %	31 km/h	3.6 mm	Very low 5
10 Jul	24.7 °C	29 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
11 Jul	20.8 °C	31 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
12 Jul	18.8 °C	29 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
13 Jul	21.2 °C	28 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
14 Jul	22.6 °C	31 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
15 Jul	23.1 °C	37 %	34 km/h	0.3 mm	High 26
16 Jul	19.6 °C	34 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
17 Jul	21.3 °C	27 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
18 Jul	21.6 °C	23 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
19 Jul	24.8 °C	23 %	24 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
20 Jul	24.3 °C	39 %	24 km/h	1.7 mm	Low 10
21 Jul	24.0 °C	30 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
22 Jul	26.9 °C	28 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
23 Jul	28.4 °C	27 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
24 Jul	28.6 °C	31 %	22 km/h	0.2 mm	High 28
25 Jul	27.2 °C	38 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
26 Jul	24.8 °C	57 %	35 km/h	2.1 mm	Low 7
27 Jul	24.2 °C	55 %	27 km/h	9.2 mm	Very low 2
28 Jul after	20.6 °C	68 %	39 km/h	9.2 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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Before · 25 Jun 2016

After · 3 Aug 2016

Before After

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 · 11,977Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Evenkiysky Rayon fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 July 2016 and 27 July 2016: 26 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 89,350 hectares (893.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (82,758 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 46 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.

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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. 11,977 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

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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.

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