Krutinsky District fire, August 2020 Krutinsky District, Abatsky District
The fire started on 3 August 2020 in Krutinsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,539 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 123th largest in Omsk Oblast since 2016 (of 152 with a page). Number 485 in Russia in 2020, of 594.
The power measured by the satellite is low (26.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 3,539ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 3 Aug 2020 – 10 Aug 2020
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 3 Aug
- 2020
- Heat detections
- 251
- in a single hotspot: 27 MW
- Danger at start
- 16
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 119MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.9 mm on 11 Aug.
This area had burned before
7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 238 ha in 2018.
What happened to each town
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Krutinsky District where it started2,670 ha reached on 3 Aug0.5 %
-
883 ha reached on 4 Aug0.2 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul | 22.6 °C | 43 % | 24 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 28 Jul | 21.5 °C | 36 % | 39 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 23 |
| 29 Jul | 17.7 °C | 42 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 21 |
| 30 Jul | 19.6 °C | 42 % | 33 km/h | 3.2 mm | Low 6 |
| 31 Jul | 23.2 °C | 61 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 10 |
| 1 Aug | 30.1 °C | 37 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Aug | 34.0 °C | 28 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 3 Aug | 34.8 °C | 24 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 4 Aug | 32.9 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 5 Aug | 31.6 °C | 29 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 6 Aug | 30.2 °C | 44 % | 31 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 28 |
| 7 Aug | 28.9 °C | 35 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 8 Aug | 29.0 °C | 33 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 9 Aug | 29.3 °C | 36 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 10 Aug | 28.9 °C | 40 % | 46 km/h | 4.9 mm | Low 9 |
| 11 Aug after | 26.9 °C | 45 % | 33 km/h | 2.9 mm | Low 6 |
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 · 251Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 12,203 haKrutinsky DistrictMay 2021 · 8 days · 7 km away
- 9,815 haKrutinsky District4 May 2022 · 7 days · 13 km away
- 55,990 haKrutinsky District25 April 2021 · 20 days · 14 km away
- 26,557 haKrutinsky District28 April 2023 · 24 days · 17 km away
- 9,890 haKrutinsky District23 April 2021 · 6 days · 24 km away
- 9,169 haKrutinsky District4 May 2022 · 7 days · 25 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Krutinsky District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 3 August 2020 and 10 August 2020: 8 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 3,539 hectares (35.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Krutinsky District (2,670 ha, 0.5 %); Abatsky District (883 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, 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.
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.