How long did the Mirninsky Ulus fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 July 2019 and 29 July 2019: 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 7,569 hectares (75.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Katangsky Rayon (4,786 ha, 0.0 %); Mirninsky Ulus (2,652 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 31.3 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.

RU · Russia · 2019-07-14 → 2019-07-29

Mirninsky Ulus fire, 14 July 2019 Katangsky Rayon, Mirninsky Ulus

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2019, 19:20 UTC

The fire started on 14 July 2019 in Mirninsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,569 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 666th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 230 in Russia in 2019, of 611.

Compare with…

Burnt area: 7,569ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 16days; 14 Jul 2019 – 29 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 14 Jul; 2019
Heat detections: 851; in a single hotspot: 223 MW
Danger at start: 16; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 509MW; detected power per day, on average

Play back 30 Jul 2019

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jul29 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

14 Jul 17 Jul 20 Jul 21 Jul 23 Jul 26 Jul 29 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

31°high

54km/h · peak gust

22%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 30 Jul.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 7 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 4.8% of the area of London (76 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

Katangsky Rayon

4,786 ha

0.0 %
Mirninsky Ulus where it started

2,652 ha

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)
14 Jul	28.5 °C	38 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
15 Jul	26.4 °C	56 %	41 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 17
16 Jul	29.2 °C	34 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
17 Jul	31.3 °C	27 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
18 Jul	21.3 °C	38 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
19 Jul	20.6 °C	29 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
20 Jul	21.5 °C	25 %	54 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
21 Jul	25.0 °C	22 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
22 Jul	28.3 °C	23 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
23 Jul	29.3 °C	26 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
24 Jul	28.4 °C	23 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
25 Jul	28.3 °C	31 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
26 Jul	27.8 °C	36 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
27 Jul	28.6 °C	37 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
28 Jul	28.2 °C	44 %	36 km/h	0.7 mm	High 22
29 Jul	22.7 °C	42 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
30 Jul after	25.4 °C	40 %	23 km/h	1.7 mm	Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Jul 2019

After · 5 Aug 2019

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.

Detections table · 851Every 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mirninsky Ulus fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 July 2019 and 29 July 2019: 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 7,569 hectares (75.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Katangsky Rayon (4,786 ha, 0.0 %); Mirninsky Ulus (2,652 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 31.3 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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. 851 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.

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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.

Where it burned