Mirninsky Ulus fire, 1 August 2026 Mirninsky Ulus
The fire started on 1 August 2026 in Mirninsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,110 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 500th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 117 in Russia in 2026, of 417.
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- Burnt area
- 10,110ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 14days
- 1 Aug 2026 – 14 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 888
- in a single hotspot: 140 MW
- Danger at start
- 18
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 717MW
- 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 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 534 ha in 2020, 115 ha in 2024.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Moscow boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Mirninsky Ulus where it started9,858 ha0.1 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Aug | 30.9 °C | 29 % | 15 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 2 Aug | 30.6 °C | 28 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 3 Aug | 19.6 °C | 45 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 4 Aug | 17.3 °C | 32 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 5 Aug | 21.1 °C | 31 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 6 Aug | 23.2 °C | 32 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 7 Aug | 23.9 °C | 35 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 8 Aug | 25.6 °C | 49 % | 20 km/h | 6.8 mm | Very low 1 |
| 9 Aug | 22.4 °C | 38 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 10 Aug | 21.9 °C | 35 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 11 Aug | 19.5 °C | 42 % | 32 km/h | 2.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 12 Aug | 18.6 °C | 37 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 13 Aug | 17.4 °C | 44 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 14 Aug | 17.1 °C | 45 % | 27 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 15 Aug after | 15.9 °C | 48 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 16 Aug after | 15.3 °C | 46 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 17 Aug after | 19.9 °C | 46 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 18 Aug after | 16.4 °C | 54 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 19 Aug after | 14.6 °C | 47 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 20 Aug after | 17.5 °C | 37 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 21 Aug after | 20.1 °C | 33 % | 13 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 22 Aug after | 20.4 °C | 35 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 23 Aug after | 19.5 °C | 33 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 24 Aug after | 20.0 °C | 31 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 8 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 659 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 309: 21 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 888Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,010 haMirninsky Ulus20 August 2026 · 14 days · 10 km away
- 5,678 haMirninsky Ulus31 July 2024 · 10 days · 11 km away
- 24,732 haMirninsky Ulus1 August 2026 · 32 days · 19 km away
- 4,467 haMirninsky Ulus17 August 2026 · 16 days · 26 km away
- 5,931 haMirninsky Ulus5 August 2019 · 13 days · 27 km away
- 12,878 haMirninsky Ulus1 August 2026 · 32 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Mirninsky Ulus fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 August 2026 and 14 August 2026: 14 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 10,110 hectares (101.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Mirninsky Ulus (9,858 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 30.9 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
- 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 888 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.
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.