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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 23 June 2018 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 26 Jul 2018, 05:51 UTC

The fire started on 23 June 2018 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 34 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 20,108 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 52th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 538 with a page). Number 57 in Russia in 2018, of 540.

Burnt area
20,108ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
34days
23 Jun 2018 – 26 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
23 Jun
2018
Heat detections
2,299
in a single hotspot: 234 MW
Danger at start
13
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
474MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jun26 Jul
26 Jul 2018

How it evolved, day by day

23 Jun 2018 · 18 MW · 2 24 Jun 2018 · 62 MW · 17 25 Jun 2018 · 268 MW · 44 26 Jun 2018 · 169 MW · 22 27 Jun 2018 · 10 MW · 2 28 Jun 2018 · 37 MW · 10 29 Jun 2018 · 56 MW · 21 30 Jun 2018 · 247 MW · 47 1 Jul 2018 · 38 MW · 15 2 Jul 2018 · 102 MW · 24 3 Jul 2018 · 304 MW · 37 4 Jul 2018 · 1,815 MW · 49 6 Jul 2018 · 145 MW · 62 7 Jul 2018 · 147 MW · 46 8 Jul 2018 · 277 MW · 14 10 Jul 2018 · 139 MW · 65 11 Jul 2018 · 162 MW · 81 12 Jul 2018 · 1,093 MW · 203 13 Jul 2018 · 845 MW · 110 14 Jul 2018 · 54 MW · 40 15 Jul 2018 · 3 MW · 3 17 Jul 2018 · 71 MW · 45 18 Jul 2018 · 1,944 MW · 248 19 Jul 2018 · 1,362 MW · 149 20 Jul 2018 · 10 MW · 7 21 Jul 2018 · 109 MW · 63 22 Jul 2018 · 103 MW · 54 23 Jul 2018 · 1,665 MW · 223 24 Jul 2018 · 2,644 MW · 334 25 Jul 2018 · 502 MW · 233 26 Jul 2018 · 278 MW · 29
23 Jun 30 Jun 8 Jul 17 Jul 24 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

33°high
52km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.8 mm on 27 Jul.

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 13% of the area of London (201 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
    18,231 ha reached on 23 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 2020
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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)
23 Jun 25.2 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
24 Jun 28.9 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jun 32.7 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
26 Jun 32.3 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
27 Jun 28.7 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
28 Jun 27.4 °C 35 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
29 Jun 24.2 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
30 Jun 27.1 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
1 Jul 28.9 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
2 Jul 28.4 °C 28 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Jul 29.1 °C 28 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jul 30.5 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Jul 17.1 °C 53 % 37 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 14
6 Jul 16.2 °C 40 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
7 Jul 18.3 °C 40 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
8 Jul 20.9 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
9 Jul 17.4 °C 58 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
10 Jul 22.8 °C 56 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
11 Jul 26.0 °C 44 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
12 Jul 25.0 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
13 Jul 26.0 °C 30 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
14 Jul 21.0 °C 54 % 30 km/h 4.2 mm Very low 4
15 Jul 12.1 °C 66 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
16 Jul 14.9 °C 60 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
17 Jul 19.0 °C 54 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
18 Jul 25.4 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
19 Jul 24.8 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Jul 21.7 °C 48 % 36 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 20
21 Jul 15.7 °C 33 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
22 Jul 14.0 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
23 Jul 20.9 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Jul 20.6 °C 39 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
25 Jul 21.0 °C 36 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jul 19.9 °C 44 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
27 Jul after 16.0 °C 66 % 36 km/h 5.8 mm Very low 1

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 12.6, a minimum humidity of 39% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.

FWI at the start 12.6
Minimum humidity 39 %
Days without rain 1
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Evenkiysky Rayon fire, August 2017
4,045 ha 12 days FWI 13.2 Min. humidity 38 % 42 km away, in 2017

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 14 Aug.

What happened to them

12 days
median duration
4,570 ha
median area
6 %
went past 10,000 ha
5.0 mm
rain at the end (median; 17 of 17 had it)

It was 4.4 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 34 days, against 12 days.

None of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.0 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

5.8 mmfirst rain
27 Julthe day after it ended
52km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 26 Jul, and on 27 Jul 5.8 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 17 of 17, with a median of 5.0 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jun 2018
After · 2 Aug 2018

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 · 2,299Every 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 23 June 2018 and 26 July 2018: 34 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 20,108 hectares (201.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (18,231 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.7 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 12 days and their median area 4,570 ha; 6 % went past 10,000 ha. None of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.0 mm.

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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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 from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 2,299 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 2020, 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.