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Lagansky District fire, 2 August 2019 Lagansky District

Out · last detection 9 Sept 2019, 23:19 UTC

The fire started on 2 August 2019 in Lagansky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 38 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 17,517 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.

Burnt area
17,517ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
38days
2 Aug 2019 – 8 Sept 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Aug
2019
Heat detections
1,324
in a single hotspot: 317 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Average daily power
835MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

9 Sept 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Aug8 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

2 Aug 2019 · 200 MW · 24 3 Aug 2019 · 641 MW · 21 4 Aug 2019 · 530 MW · 31 5 Aug 2019 · 49 MW · 4 6 Aug 2019 · 1,716 MW · 67 7 Aug 2019 · 1,106 MW · 83 8 Aug 2019 · 363 MW · 26 9 Aug 2019 · 679 MW · 51 10 Aug 2019 · 2,529 MW · 51 11 Aug 2019 · 648 MW · 32 12 Aug 2019 · 6,506 MW · 209 13 Aug 2019 · 1,345 MW · 41 14 Aug 2019 · 2,725 MW · 47 15 Aug 2019 · 2,319 MW · 74 16 Aug 2019 · 546 MW · 45 17 Aug 2019 · 213 MW · 13 18 Aug 2019 · 245 MW · 17 19 Aug 2019 · 35 MW · 7 20 Aug 2019 · 152 MW · 11 21 Aug 2019 · 300 MW · 17 22 Aug 2019 · 690 MW · 31 23 Aug 2019 · 192 MW · 14 24 Aug 2019 · 2 MW · 1 26 Aug 2019 · 4 MW · 2 27 Aug 2019 · 498 MW · 22 28 Aug 2019 · 1,609 MW · 86 29 Aug 2019 · 430 MW · 30 30 Aug 2019 · 3,624 MW · 101 31 Aug 2019 · 188 MW · 42 1 Sept 2019 · 492 MW · 27 2 Sept 2019 · 64 MW · 13 3 Sept 2019 · 22 MW · 6 4 Sept 2019 · 159 MW · 11 5 Sept 2019 · 13 MW · 12 6 Sept 2019 · 10 MW · 5 8 Sept 2019 · 23 MW · 7 9 Sept 2019 · 21 MW · 11
2 Aug 8 Aug 12 Aug 14 Aug 20 Aug 27 Aug 2 Sept 9 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

34°high
74km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 187 ha in 2016, 738 ha in 2017, 2,788 ha in 2018.

What happened to each town

  1. Lagansky District where it started
    95 ha reached on 7 Aug
    0.0 %

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)
2 Aug 27.2 °C 34 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Aug 29.0 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
4 Aug 26.1 °C 53 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Aug 26.5 °C 30 % 74 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
6 Aug 25.6 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Aug 26.4 °C 43 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Aug 28.0 °C 38 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Aug 27.8 °C 50 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
10 Aug 28.2 °C 52 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
11 Aug 28.2 °C 30 % 53 km/h 1.0 mm Very high 40
12 Aug 28.3 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
13 Aug 27.9 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Aug 27.0 °C 21 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Aug 26.8 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Aug 26.7 °C 53 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Aug 26.3 °C 58 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Aug 27.4 °C 55 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Aug 28.5 °C 56 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Aug 31.0 °C 46 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
21 Aug 33.7 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
22 Aug 31.9 °C 50 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Aug 31.5 °C 49 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Aug 31.0 °C 58 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
25 Aug 29.1 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Aug 28.0 °C 42 % 40 km/h 0.6 mm High 34
27 Aug 27.4 °C 45 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
28 Aug 28.4 °C 26 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
29 Aug 22.3 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
30 Aug 23.2 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
31 Aug 23.5 °C 51 % 34 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
1 Sept 24.1 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
2 Sept 25.5 °C 47 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Sept 25.4 °C 40 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
4 Sept 25.5 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Sept 25.0 °C 51 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Sept 23.0 °C 55 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Sept 22.2 °C 54 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Sept 24.1 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Sept after 23.2 °C 43 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Sept after 23.0 °C 49 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
11 Sept after 23.6 °C 53 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Sept after 23.6 °C 44 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
13 Sept after 23.3 °C 45 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
14 Sept after 23.5 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
15 Sept after 23.9 °C 50 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm High 27
16 Sept after 23.5 °C 52 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Sept after 25.7 °C 50 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
18 Sept after 26.5 °C 37 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Jul 2019
After · 15 Sept 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 · 1,324Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Lagansky District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 August 2019 and 8 September 2019: 38 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 17,517 hectares (175.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Lagansky District (95 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 74 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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

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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.