Khobdinskiy fire, 25 July 2017 Khobdinskiy, Chingirlauskiy
The fire started on 25 July 2017 in Khobdinskiy, Kazakhstan, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,038 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 8th largest in Aktobe Region since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 50 in Kazakhstan in 2017, of 239.
- Burnt area
- 9,038ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 5days
- 25 Jul 2017 – 29 Jul 2017
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 25 Jul
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 361
- in a single hotspot: 86 MW
- Danger at start
- 34
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 3.1GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Khobdinskiy where it started8,771 ha reached on 25 Jul0.6 %
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293 ha reached on 29 Jul0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jul | 27.1 °C | 26 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 26 Jul | 28.0 °C | 27 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 27 Jul | 29.4 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Jul | 32.2 °C | 28 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 29 Jul | 35.5 °C | 24 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 30 Jul after | 37.6 °C | 17 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 31 Jul after | 30.6 °C | 36 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 1 Aug after | 29.5 °C | 33 % | 42 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 42 |
| 2 Aug after | 29.9 °C | 35 % | 53 km/h | 0.2 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 3 Aug after | 29.7 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 4 Aug after | 34.3 °C | 22 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 5 Aug after | 36.5 °C | 19 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 6 Aug after | 34.3 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 7 Aug after | 33.4 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 8 Aug after | 41.3 °C | 10 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 361Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 18,294 haKhobdinskiy22 August 2017 · 3 days · 15 km away
- 3,652 haKhobdinskiy26 July 2017 · 2 days · 20 km away
- 3,117 haKhobdinskiySeptember 2019 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 3,265 haKhobdinskiy26 July 2017 · 3 days · 28 km away
- 3,600 haChingirlauskiyOctober 2017 · 3 days · 30 km away
- 5,607 haKhobdinskiySeptember 2018 · 2 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Khobdinskiy fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 25 July 2017 and 29 July 2017: 5 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 9,038 hectares (90.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Khobdinskiy (8,771 ha, 0.6 %); Chingirlauskiy (293 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Kazakhstan (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
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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.