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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 1 July 2018 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2018, 04:36 UTC

The fire started on 1 July 2018 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 30 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 24,954 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 43th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 46 in Russia in 2018, of 540.

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Burnt area
24,954ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
30days
1 Jul 2018 – 30 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2018
Heat detections
3,158
in a single hotspot: 220 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Average daily power
755MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jul30 Jul
30 Jul 2018

How it evolved, day by day

1 Jul 2018 · 90 MW · 19 2 Jul 2018 · 151 MW · 26 3 Jul 2018 · 57 MW · 14 4 Jul 2018 · 696 MW · 45 5 Jul 2018 · 4 MW · 1 6 Jul 2018 · 55 MW · 22 7 Jul 2018 · 3 MW · 1 8 Jul 2018 · 14 MW · 4 10 Jul 2018 · 43 MW · 9 11 Jul 2018 · 77 MW · 47 12 Jul 2018 · 549 MW · 112 13 Jul 2018 · 215 MW · 51 14 Jul 2018 · 33 MW · 25 15 Jul 2018 · 52 MW · 38 17 Jul 2018 · 67 MW · 28 18 Jul 2018 · 2,408 MW · 225 19 Jul 2018 · 494 MW · 60 20 Jul 2018 · 865 MW · 326 21 Jul 2018 · 710 MW · 256 22 Jul 2018 · 456 MW · 144 23 Jul 2018 · 5,088 MW · 360 24 Jul 2018 · 5,993 MW · 766 25 Jul 2018 · 1,031 MW · 334 26 Jul 2018 · 1,272 MW · 112 27 Jul 2018 · 86 MW · 38 28 Jul 2018 · 56 MW · 31 29 Jul 2018 · 557 MW · 63 30 Jul 2018 · 6 MW · 1
1 Jul 5 Jul 10 Jul 14 Jul 19 Jul 23 Jul 24 Jul 27 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

31°high
52km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 31 Jul.

This area had burned before

4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,036 ha in 2016. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 961 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 16% of the area of London (250 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
    21,790 ha reached on 1 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 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)
1 Jul 29.6 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Jul 29.7 °C 26 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul 29.7 °C 26 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
4 Jul 31.2 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
5 Jul 15.8 °C 55 % 40 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
6 Jul 17.9 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
7 Jul 19.8 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
8 Jul 21.2 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Jul 17.2 °C 56 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
10 Jul 22.2 °C 59 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 Jul 24.5 °C 49 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
12 Jul 26.1 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Jul 26.0 °C 34 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
14 Jul 22.1 °C 57 % 29 km/h 1.8 mm Low 7
15 Jul 14.3 °C 58 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
16 Jul 17.2 °C 50 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
17 Jul 19.2 °C 54 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
18 Jul 24.6 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Jul 24.1 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
20 Jul 23.5 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
21 Jul 16.7 °C 35 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
22 Jul 14.3 °C 38 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jul 21.4 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
24 Jul 20.9 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
25 Jul 21.7 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jul 21.2 °C 47 % 25 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 14
27 Jul 18.7 °C 56 % 40 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 4
28 Jul 20.4 °C 56 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
29 Jul 22.4 °C 46 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
30 Jul 20.5 °C 56 % 52 km/h 3.6 mm Low 7
31 Jul after 15.6 °C 53 % 56 km/h 1.0 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jun 2018
After · 6 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 · 3,158Every 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 1 July 2018 to 30 July 2018 (30 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 July 2018 to 30 July 2018.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 24,954 hectares (249.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (21,790 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Start date: 8 July 2018 → 1 July 2018.

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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 8 July 2018 to 30 July 2018. 3,158 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.