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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 6 September 2016 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 28 Sept 2016, 05:39 UTC

The fire started on 6 September 2016 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,233 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 248th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 256 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
8,233ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
23days
6 Sept 2016 – 28 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
6 Sept
2016
Heat detections
1,494
in a single hotspot: 388 MW
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
300MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Sept28 Sept
28 Sept 2016

How it evolved, day by day

6 Sept 2016 · 12 MW · 3 7 Sept 2016 · 119 MW · 25 8 Sept 2016 · 104 MW · 18 9 Sept 2016 · 222 MW · 32 10 Sept 2016 · 194 MW · 36 11 Sept 2016 · 138 MW · 44 12 Sept 2016 · 341 MW · 106 13 Sept 2016 · 634 MW · 103 14 Sept 2016 · 642 MW · 121 15 Sept 2016 · 1,198 MW · 210 16 Sept 2016 · 836 MW · 243 17 Sept 2016 · 1,067 MW · 284 18 Sept 2016 · 393 MW · 134 19 Sept 2016 · 7 MW · 6 20 Sept 2016 · 18 MW · 7 21 Sept 2016 · 40 MW · 26 22 Sept 2016 · 46 MW · 17 23 Sept 2016 · 64 MW · 12 24 Sept 2016 · 3 MW · 1 27 Sept 2016 · 167 MW · 53 28 Sept 2016 · 53 MW · 13
6 Sept 9 Sept 12 Sept 15 Sept 18 Sept 21 Sept 24 Sept

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

22°high
42km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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 5.2% of the area of London (82 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
    7,240 ha reached on 6 Sept
    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)
6 Sept 17.5 °C 30 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
7 Sept 18.6 °C 30 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
8 Sept 19.4 °C 30 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
9 Sept 20.6 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
10 Sept 20.2 °C 32 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
11 Sept 18.6 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
12 Sept 18.7 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
13 Sept 18.7 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
14 Sept 19.7 °C 27 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
15 Sept 20.4 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
16 Sept 22.2 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
17 Sept 21.7 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
18 Sept 18.2 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
19 Sept 12.8 °C 60 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
20 Sept 12.9 °C 52 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
21 Sept 10.1 °C 53 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
22 Sept 11.1 °C 50 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
23 Sept 5.4 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 13
24 Sept 7.4 °C 57 % 42 km/h 0.8 mm Low 8
25 Sept 7.2 °C 37 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
26 Sept 8.8 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
27 Sept 11.3 °C 42 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
28 Sept 7.3 °C 58 % 34 km/h 0.6 mm Low 10
29 Sept after 2.4 °C 54 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
30 Sept after -2.6 °C 48 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
1 Oct after -1.8 °C 47 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
2 Oct after 0.7 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
3 Oct after 0.5 °C 66 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
4 Oct after 1.4 °C 71 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Low 7
5 Oct after 2.0 °C 73 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
6 Oct after 0.9 °C 66 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
7 Oct after -2.6 °C 61 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
8 Oct after -3.7 °C 60 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Aug 2016
After · 5 Oct 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 · 1,494Every 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 6 September 2016 and 28 September 2016: 23 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 8,233 hectares (82.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (7,240 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 22.2 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, class Moderate.
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. 1,494 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.