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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 171,372 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

It is the largest fire in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 538 with a page). Number 2 in Russia in 2019, of 610.

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Suggestions: Evenkiysky Rayon · 2016Evenkiysky Rayon · 2018Evenkiysky Rayon · 2016

Burnt area
171,372ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
41days
1 Jul 2019 – 10 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2019
Heat detections
25,128
in a single hotspot: 447 MW
Danger at start
27
High · FWI index
Average daily power
6.0GW
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 · 3 MW · 2 2 Jul 2019 · 529 MW · 122 3 Jul 2019 · 1,107 MW · 177 4 Jul 2019 · 3,907 MW · 456 5 Jul 2019 · 5,739 MW · 322 6 Jul 2019 · 1,014 MW · 90 8 Jul 2019 · 2 MW · 1 9 Jul 2019 · 10 MW · 4 10 Jul 2019 · 268 MW · 40 11 Jul 2019 · 94 MW · 64 12 Jul 2019 · 2,875 MW · 516 13 Jul 2019 · 3,531 MW · 534 14 Jul 2019 · 224 MW · 115 15 Jul 2019 · 66 MW · 43 16 Jul 2019 · 4,267 MW · 1106 17 Jul 2019 · 12,774 MW · 1901 18 Jul 2019 · 15,956 MW · 2394 19 Jul 2019 · 40,704 MW · 3090 20 Jul 2019 · 5,468 MW · 551 21 Jul 2019 · 50,814 MW · 2169 22 Jul 2019 · 14,062 MW · 2268 23 Jul 2019 · 9,691 MW · 1845 24 Jul 2019 · 13,792 MW · 914 27 Jul 2019 · 484 MW · 150 28 Jul 2019 · 4,963 MW · 805 29 Jul 2019 · 11,599 MW · 1164 30 Jul 2019 · 3,789 MW · 624 31 Jul 2019 · 5,288 MW · 647 1 Aug 2019 · 2,199 MW · 676 2 Aug 2019 · 3,174 MW · 210 3 Aug 2019 · 1 MW · 2 4 Aug 2019 · 8 MW · 5 5 Aug 2019 · 429 MW · 106 6 Aug 2019 · 3,047 MW · 585 7 Aug 2019 · 633 MW · 240 8 Aug 2019 · 6,260 MW · 846 9 Aug 2019 · 700 MW · 325 10 Aug 2019 · 78 MW · 19
1 Jul 10 Jul 21 Jul 5 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

33°high
61km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 35.3 mm on 12 Aug.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,288 ha in 2016, 513 ha in 2018.

How big is it?

20 km
It burned almost the same area as London (1,714 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
    159,316 ha reached on 1 Jul
    0.2 %

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 32.1 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
2 Jul 32.6 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Jul 26.9 °C 24 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
4 Jul 26.3 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
5 Jul 29.9 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Jul 24.7 °C 43 % 45 km/h 0.5 mm High 26
7 Jul 22.7 °C 47 % 37 km/h 3.9 mm Very low 4
8 Jul 24.6 °C 41 % 50 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 14
9 Jul 23.4 °C 41 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 17
10 Jul 26.6 °C 34 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
11 Jul 22.2 °C 39 % 48 km/h 3.4 mm Low 7
12 Jul 23.4 °C 34 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
13 Jul 25.9 °C 42 % 29 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
14 Jul 20.8 °C 51 % 37 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 4
15 Jul 25.0 °C 56 % 44 km/h 6.1 mm Very low 2
16 Jul 26.1 °C 50 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
17 Jul 28.9 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
18 Jul 26.2 °C 37 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
19 Jul 21.5 °C 27 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jul 19.5 °C 29 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
21 Jul 22.5 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
22 Jul 24.9 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jul 26.9 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
24 Jul 27.2 °C 41 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
25 Jul 28.0 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
26 Jul 21.0 °C 64 % 27 km/h 4.2 mm Very low 2
27 Jul 22.6 °C 43 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
28 Jul 21.5 °C 40 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
29 Jul 24.7 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
30 Jul 24.1 °C 47 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
31 Jul 24.9 °C 51 % 29 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 4
1 Aug 23.9 °C 54 % 34 km/h 0.7 mm Low 7
2 Aug 24.8 °C 49 % 45 km/h 0.8 mm Low 10
3 Aug 21.8 °C 40 % 33 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 15
4 Aug 23.8 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
5 Aug 24.6 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
6 Aug 26.0 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
7 Aug 27.4 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
8 Aug 28.1 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Aug 28.4 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
10 Aug 25.4 °C 47 % 45 km/h 11.0 mm Very low 3
11 Aug after 17.8 °C 50 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
12 Aug after 13.1 °C 75 % 60 km/h 35.3 mm Very low 0

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 27.3, a minimum humidity of 29% and 12 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 15.

FWI at the start 27.3
Minimum humidity 29 %
Days without rain 12
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Evenkiysky Rayon fire, July 2016
6,449 ha 19 days FWI 27.9 Min. humidity 30 % 118 km away, in 2016

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.0 mm on 31 Jul.

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What happened to them

18 days
median duration
9,243 ha
median area
47 %
went past 10,000 ha
5.1 mm
rain at the end (median; 15 of 15 had it)

It was 18.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 41 days, against 18 days.

None of its 15 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 5.1 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

35.3 mmfirst rain
12 Aug2 days after it ended
61km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 10 Aug, and on 12 Aug 35.3 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 15 of 15, with a median of 5.1 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 · 25,128Every 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

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 171,372 hectares (1,713.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Evenkiysky Rayon (159,316 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 61 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: 15. Their median duration was 18 days and their median area 9,243 ha; 47 % went past 10,000 ha. None of its 15 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 5.1 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Area: 178,593 → 171,372 ha.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 7 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 25,128 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.