How long did the Evenkiysky Rayon fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 19 July 2017 to 22 August 2017 (35 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 July 2017 to 22 August 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,398 hectares (84.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (7,408 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 30.8 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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 · 2017-07-19 → 2017-08-22

Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 19 July 2017 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 22 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

The fire started on 19 July 2017 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 35 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,398 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 243th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 91 in Russia in 2017, of 367.

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Burnt area: 8,398ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 35days; 19 Jul 2017 – 22 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 19 Jul; 2017
Heat detections: 1,557; in a single hotspot: 473 MW
Danger at start: 10; Low · FWI index
Average daily power: 563MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Jul22 Aug

Play back 22 Aug 2017

How it evolved, day by day

19 Jul 26 Jul 31 Jul 5 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 19 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

47km/h · peak gust

25%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.3 mm on 23 Aug.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 104 ha in 2016.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 5.3% of the area of London (84 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

7,408 ha reached on 19 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)
19 Jul	22.9 °C	41 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
20 Jul	25.5 °C	32 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
21 Jul	18.0 °C	51 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
22 Jul	22.0 °C	28 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
23 Jul	27.2 °C	25 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
24 Jul	27.5 °C	33 %	26 km/h	1.6 mm	Low 10
25 Jul	27.1 °C	36 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
26 Jul	28.6 °C	33 %	24 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 19
27 Jul	28.0 °C	35 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
28 Jul	24.2 °C	54 %	32 km/h	1.8 mm	Low 7
29 Jul	23.9 °C	55 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 11
30 Jul	26.9 °C	47 %	40 km/h	1.3 mm	Low 11
31 Jul	24.0 °C	54 %	39 km/h	2.5 mm	Very low 5
1 Aug	26.4 °C	34 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
2 Aug	26.8 °C	36 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
3 Aug	29.4 °C	28 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
4 Aug	29.8 °C	30 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
5 Aug	30.8 °C	30 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
6 Aug	30.8 °C	27 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
7 Aug	30.8 °C	30 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
8 Aug	29.0 °C	40 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
9 Aug	29.5 °C	40 %	25 km/h	1.8 mm	Low 11
10 Aug	22.2 °C	67 %	34 km/h	3.5 mm	Very low 3
11 Aug	23.0 °C	44 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
12 Aug	28.3 °C	38 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
13 Aug	29.9 °C	39 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
14 Aug	20.4 °C	65 %	47 km/h	1.1 mm	Low 10
15 Aug	17.1 °C	54 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
16 Aug	18.7 °C	44 %	13 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
17 Aug	19.9 °C	44 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
18 Aug	20.3 °C	45 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
19 Aug	23.0 °C	35 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
20 Aug	22.8 °C	35 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
21 Aug	20.5 °C	46 %	42 km/h	0.7 mm	Moderate 18
22 Aug	17.7 °C	36 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
23 Aug after	14.1 °C	68 %	30 km/h	5.3 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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Before · 12 Jul 2017

After · 29 Aug 2017

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 · 1,557Every 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?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 19 July 2017 to 22 August 2017 (35 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 July 2017 to 22 August 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,398 hectares (84.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (7,408 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 30.8 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Start date: 24 July 2017 → 19 July 2017.

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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 24 July 2017 to 22 August 2017. 1,557 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.

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.

Where it burned