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Evenkiysky Rayon fire, 1 July 2019 Evenkiysky Rayon

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2019, 19:14 UTC

The fire started on 1 July 2019 in Evenkiysky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 41 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 26,381 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 32th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 538 with a page). Number 42 in Russia in 2019, of 610.

Burnt area
26,381ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
41days
1 Jul 2019 – 10 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2019
Heat detections
4,415
in a single hotspot: 121 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Average daily power
632MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jul10 Aug
10 Aug 2019

How it evolved, day by day

1 Jul 2019 · 4 MW · 2 2 Jul 2019 · 90 MW · 25 3 Jul 2019 · 159 MW · 38 4 Jul 2019 · 588 MW · 97 5 Jul 2019 · 1,310 MW · 60 6 Jul 2019 · 117 MW · 13 7 Jul 2019 · 4 MW · 3 8 Jul 2019 · 30 MW · 9 9 Jul 2019 · 28 MW · 14 10 Jul 2019 · 163 MW · 18 11 Jul 2019 · 161 MW · 58 12 Jul 2019 · 376 MW · 105 13 Jul 2019 · 345 MW · 86 16 Jul 2019 · 193 MW · 75 17 Jul 2019 · 959 MW · 233 18 Jul 2019 · 1,592 MW · 256 19 Jul 2019 · 1,152 MW · 140 20 Jul 2019 · 145 MW · 17 21 Jul 2019 · 385 MW · 75 22 Jul 2019 · 175 MW · 61 23 Jul 2019 · 211 MW · 71 24 Jul 2019 · 214 MW · 60 26 Jul 2019 · 28 MW · 18 27 Jul 2019 · 216 MW · 84 28 Jul 2019 · 924 MW · 187 29 Jul 2019 · 1,146 MW · 237 30 Jul 2019 · 130 MW · 40 31 Jul 2019 · 680 MW · 69 1 Aug 2019 · 400 MW · 128 2 Aug 2019 · 3,056 MW · 493 3 Aug 2019 · 453 MW · 142 4 Aug 2019 · 1,135 MW · 216 5 Aug 2019 · 1,384 MW · 287 6 Aug 2019 · 1,470 MW · 226 7 Aug 2019 · 1,002 MW · 230 8 Aug 2019 · 1,750 MW · 253 9 Aug 2019 · 1,182 MW · 224 10 Aug 2019 · 644 MW · 65
1 Jul 9 Jul 19 Jul 2 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

34°high
59km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 59.2 mm on 12 Aug.

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,116 ha in 2016, 333 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,146 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 17% of the area of London (264 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
    23,436 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 33.0 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
2 Jul 33.6 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
3 Jul 28.8 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Jul 27.1 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
5 Jul 29.5 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
6 Jul 26.3 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.6 mm High 38
7 Jul 23.0 °C 57 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm High 25
8 Jul 28.1 °C 39 % 46 km/h 0.9 mm High 34
9 Jul 25.5 °C 39 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
10 Jul 28.8 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
11 Jul 23.7 °C 41 % 44 km/h 1.0 mm High 23
12 Jul 25.3 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Jul 27.8 °C 38 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
14 Jul 23.9 °C 49 % 33 km/h 4.9 mm High 25
15 Jul 23.6 °C 59 % 40 km/h 2.2 mm Very low 4
16 Jul 27.4 °C 53 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
17 Jul 30.1 °C 42 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jul 28.3 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
19 Jul 21.9 °C 33 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Jul 18.9 °C 36 % 59 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 43
21 Jul 20.2 °C 41 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Jul 23.5 °C 45 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
23 Jul 26.0 °C 42 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Jul 26.0 °C 48 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
25 Jul 25.4 °C 44 % 19 km/h 0.2 mm High 21
26 Jul 21.9 °C 69 % 24 km/h 1.5 mm Low 10
27 Jul 23.7 °C 45 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 14
28 Jul 23.3 °C 42 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Jul 26.4 °C 38 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
30 Jul 26.8 °C 40 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
31 Jul 27.0 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Aug 25.9 °C 49 % 35 km/h 2.4 mm Low 9
2 Aug 27.9 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Aug 23.1 °C 43 % 31 km/h 4.0 mm Very low 4
4 Aug 25.0 °C 36 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
5 Aug 26.3 °C 35 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Aug 27.2 °C 34 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
7 Aug 27.2 °C 42 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
8 Aug 28.1 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Aug 25.9 °C 42 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
10 Aug 22.8 °C 60 % 40 km/h 3.9 mm Moderate 20
11 Aug after 18.3 °C 53 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
12 Aug after 12.7 °C 77 % 72 km/h 59.2 mm Very low 0

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 27.6, a minimum humidity of 35% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 19.

FWI at the start 27.6
Minimum humidity 35 %
Days without rain 10
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Kezhemsky Rayon fire, June 2018
10,591 ha 17 days FWI 24.9 Min. humidity 35 % 152 km away, in 2018

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.7 mm on 14 Jul.

What happened to them

16 days
median duration
9,499 ha
median area
47 %
went past 10,000 ha
3.4 mm
rain at the end (median; 19 of 19 had it)

It was 2.8 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 41 days, against 16 days.

Only 1 of its 19 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 3.4 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

59.2 mmfirst rain
12 Aug2 days after it ended
59km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 10 Aug, and on 12 Aug 59.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 19 of 19, with a median of 3.4 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 · 24 Jun 2019
After · 17 Aug 2019

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 · 4,415Every 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 1 July 2019 and 10 August 2019: 41 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 26,381 hectares (263.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (23,436 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, class Very 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: 19. Their median duration was 16 days and their median area 9,499 ha; 47 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 1 of its 19 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 3.4 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. 4,415 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.