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Klepikovsky District fire, August 2022 Klepikovsky District, Spassky District, Ryazansky District

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2022, 23:49 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2022 in Klepikovsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 29 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 37,764 hectares from heat detections, spread across 4 municipalities.

Number 9 in Russia in 2022, of 400.

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Burnt area
37,764ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
29days
13 Aug 2022 – 10 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
4
districts
Started on
13 Aug
2022
Heat detections
5,418
in a single hotspot: 425 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
2.1GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug10 Sept
10 Sept 2022

How it evolved, day by day

13 Aug 2022 · 50 MW · 3 14 Aug 2022 · 1 MW · 1 15 Aug 2022 · 82 MW · 14 16 Aug 2022 · 2,304 MW · 138 17 Aug 2022 · 3,174 MW · 303 18 Aug 2022 · 178 MW · 82 19 Aug 2022 · 1,273 MW · 185 20 Aug 2022 · 2,195 MW · 448 21 Aug 2022 · 7,186 MW · 244 22 Aug 2022 · 523 MW · 165 23 Aug 2022 · 7,337 MW · 432 24 Aug 2022 · 7,050 MW · 422 25 Aug 2022 · 3,370 MW · 478 26 Aug 2022 · 609 MW · 172 27 Aug 2022 · 193 MW · 73 28 Aug 2022 · 2 MW · 1 29 Aug 2022 · 1,468 MW · 67 30 Aug 2022 · 1,454 MW · 222 31 Aug 2022 · 7,619 MW · 411 1 Sept 2022 · 2,070 MW · 306 2 Sept 2022 · 1,636 MW · 354 3 Sept 2022 · 4,684 MW · 499 4 Sept 2022 · 2,224 MW · 181 5 Sept 2022 · 612 MW · 203 6 Sept 2022 · 21 MW · 5 9 Sept 2022 · 1 MW · 1 10 Sept 2022 · 15 MW · 8
13 Aug 17 Aug 21 Aug 25 Aug 29 Aug 31 Aug 2 Sept 6 Sept

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
52km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.9 mm on 13 Sept.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 156 ha in 2017.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 24% of the area of London (378 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. Klepikovsky District where it started
    25,972 ha reached on 13 Aug
    8.0 %
  2. Spassky District
    7,965 ha reached on 15 Aug
    2.9 %
  3. Ryazansky District
    2,853 ha reached on 16 Aug
    1.3 %
  4. Kasimovsky District
    851 ha reached on 2 Sept
    0.3 %

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 area1.2 ha
Residents≈ 70

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.2 hectares of built-up land and about 70 residents (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)
13 Aug 28.4 °C 34 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
14 Aug 27.5 °C 39 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
15 Aug 29.2 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
16 Aug 29.0 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Aug 29.9 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Aug 26.5 °C 41 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Aug 25.4 °C 36 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
20 Aug 24.7 °C 30 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Aug 27.6 °C 17 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Aug 30.9 °C 26 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Aug 32.4 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
24 Aug 32.2 °C 20 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Aug 32.0 °C 23 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
26 Aug 32.1 °C 21 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
27 Aug 31.7 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
28 Aug 31.1 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
29 Aug 28.2 °C 29 % 52 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
30 Aug 28.7 °C 37 % 45 km/h 0.5 mm High 33
31 Aug 24.4 °C 46 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Sept 16.1 °C 46 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm High 25
2 Sept 12.3 °C 54 % 52 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 19
3 Sept 15.6 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
4 Sept 16.7 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
5 Sept 13.2 °C 60 % 31 km/h 2.0 mm Low 6
6 Sept 11.9 °C 51 % 37 km/h 0.6 mm Low 9
7 Sept 12.1 °C 57 % 36 km/h 2.4 mm Very low 5
8 Sept 12.2 °C 65 % 32 km/h 2.6 mm Very low 2
9 Sept 12.1 °C 46 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Low 6
10 Sept 14.5 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
11 Sept after 16.7 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
12 Sept after 14.5 °C 54 % 36 km/h 0.9 mm Low 10
13 Sept after 14.9 °C 51 % 41 km/h 3.9 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2022
After · 17 Sept 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 282 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 175: 12 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak282 µg/m³
Days over the guideline20 days
PM101,382 µg/m³
Optical depth2.16
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 5,418Every 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 Klepikovsky District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 August 2022 to 10 September 2022 (29 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 August 2022 to 6 September 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 37,764 hectares (377.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Klepikovsky District (25,972 ha, 8.0 %); Spassky District (7,965 ha, 2.9 %); Ryazansky District (2,853 ha, 1.3 %); Kasimovsky District (851 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, 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.

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. Last day with fire: 6 September 2022 → 10 September 2022.

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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 13 August 2022 to 6 September 2022. 5,418 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.