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Mazanovsky District fire, 28 June 2024 Mazanovsky District

Out · last detection 13 Jul 2024, 17:27 UTC

The fire started on 28 June 2024 in Mazanovsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,208 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 57th largest in Amur Oblast since 2016 (of 491 with a page). Number 63 in Russia in 2024, of 557.

Burnt area
21,208ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
16days
28 Jun 2024 – 13 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
28 Jun
2024
Heat detections
1,665
in a single hotspot: 184 MW
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index
Average daily power
764MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun13 Jul
13 Jul 2024

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jun 2024 · 3 MW · 1 29 Jun 2024 · 107 MW · 10 30 Jun 2024 · 394 MW · 37 1 Jul 2024 · 178 MW · 34 2 Jul 2024 · 457 MW · 74 3 Jul 2024 · 413 MW · 68 4 Jul 2024 · 73 MW · 17 6 Jul 2024 · 292 MW · 110 7 Jul 2024 · 1,856 MW · 310 8 Jul 2024 · 117 MW · 7 9 Jul 2024 · 96 MW · 16 10 Jul 2024 · 317 MW · 113 11 Jul 2024 · 1,532 MW · 285 12 Jul 2024 · 2,351 MW · 399 13 Jul 2024 · 3,279 MW · 184
28 Jun 1 Jul 4 Jul 8 Jul 13 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
42km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 14 Jul.

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 9,791 ha in 2018.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 13% of the area of London (212 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. Mazanovsky District where it started
    21,515 ha reached on 28 Jun
    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)
28 Jun 26.5 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
29 Jun 22.7 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
30 Jun 25.2 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Jul 29.7 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Jul 33.3 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Jul 32.5 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
4 Jul 31.6 °C 46 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
5 Jul 30.2 °C 50 % 23 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 17
6 Jul 27.7 °C 52 % 35 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 15
7 Jul 25.4 °C 39 % 42 km/h 0.6 mm High 22
8 Jul 25.3 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
9 Jul 23.7 °C 43 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
10 Jul 22.9 °C 50 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
11 Jul 25.2 °C 44 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
12 Jul 28.0 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Jul 28.6 °C 31 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Jul after 24.9 °C 47 % 24 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 15

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 24.4, a minimum humidity of 27% and 4 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.

FWI at the start 24.4
Minimum humidity 27 %
Days without rain 4
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Selemdzhinsky District fire, July 2023
44,677 ha 19 days FWI 24.7 Min. humidity 30 % 113 km away, in 2023

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.6 mm on 25 Jul.

What happened to them

9 days
median duration
5,032 ha
median area
29 %
went past 10,000 ha
10.6 mm
rain at the end (median; 16 of 17 had it)

It was 4.2 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 16 days, against 9 days.

Only 3 of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 10.6 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

1.0 mmfirst rain
14 Julthe day after it ended
42km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 13 Jul, and on 14 Jul 1.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 17, with a median of 10.6 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2024
After · 20 Jul 2024

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 14 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 2,712 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 868: 58 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak2,712 µg/m³
Days over the guideline21 days
PM103,107 µg/m³
Optical depth10.66
26 Jun1 Jul6 Jul11 Jul16 Jul
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 · 1,665Every 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 Mazanovsky District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 June 2024 and 13 July 2024: 16 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 21,208 hectares (212.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mazanovsky District (21,515 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 9 days and their median area 5,032 ha; 29 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 3 of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 10.6 mm.

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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 1,665 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 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.