How long did the Klimovsky District fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 September 2024 to 25 September 2024 (20 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 September 2024 to 20 September 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,011 hectares (30.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Klimovsky District (1,305 ha, 0.8 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.

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.

RU · Russia · 2024-09-06 → 2024-09-25

Klimovsky District fire, September 2024 Klimovsky District

Out · last detection 25 Sept 2024, 10:09 UTC

The fire started on 6 September 2024 in Klimovsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,011 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

Number 557 in Russia in 2024, of 558.

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Burnt area: 3,011ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 20days; 6 Sept 2024 – 25 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 6 Sept; 2024
Heat detections: 383; in a single hotspot: 101 MW
Danger at start: 33; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 101MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Sept25 Sept

Play back 25 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

6 Sept 9 Sept 14 Sept 16 Sept 17 Sept 20 Sept 23 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

29°high

53km/h · peak gust

18%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 28 Sept.

This area had burned before

5% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 11 ha in 2019, 147 ha in 2020.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 1.9% of the area of London (30 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

Klimovsky District where it started

1,305 ha reached on 10 Sept

0.8 %

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 2025

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

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)
6 Sept	25.2 °C	27 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
7 Sept	26.0 °C	25 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
8 Sept	26.4 °C	25 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
9 Sept	25.9 °C	27 %	41 km/h	0.3 mm	High 36
10 Sept	25.9 °C	32 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
11 Sept	26.2 °C	46 %	35 km/h	0.3 mm	High 26
12 Sept	28.4 °C	48 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
13 Sept	26.8 °C	38 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
14 Sept	28.1 °C	28 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
15 Sept	28.6 °C	18 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
16 Sept	27.3 °C	24 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
17 Sept	26.9 °C	25 %	43 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 42
18 Sept	22.5 °C	31 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
19 Sept	24.0 °C	21 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
20 Sept	23.8 °C	40 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
21 Sept	24.4 °C	37 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
22 Sept	22.9 °C	39 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
23 Sept	22.9 °C	36 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
24 Sept	26.0 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
25 Sept	26.8 °C	29 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
26 Sept after	22.9 °C	35 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
27 Sept after	24.0 °C	56 %	52 km/h	0.4 mm	High 32
28 Sept after	27.6 °C	42 %	48 km/h	1.0 mm	High 27

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 30 Aug 2024

After · 2 Oct 2024

Before After

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 12 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1042 µg/m³

Optical depth0.48

WHO 15

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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 · 383Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Klimovsky District fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 September 2024 to 25 September 2024 (20 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 September 2024 to 20 September 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,011 hectares (30.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Klimovsky District (1,305 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.
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 ›

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History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 20 September 2024 → 25 September 2024.
25 October 2026 Start date: 13 September 2024 → 6 September 2024.

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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 September 2024 to 20 September 2024. 383 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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 2025, 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.

Where it burned