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Momsky Ulus fire, 22 June 2019 Momsky Ulus

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2019, 04:36 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2019 in Momsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 19,419 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 281th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 74 in Russia in 2019, of 613.

Burnt area
19,419ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
22 Jun 2019 – 1 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jun
2019
Heat detections
1,736
in a single hotspot: 376 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
37.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Jul 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun1 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

27°high
51km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.5 mm on 2 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Momsky Ulus where it started
    19,626 ha reached on 16 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
16 Jun 25.5 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 19
17 Jun 24.5 °C 34 % 36 km/h 3.0 mm Very low 5
18 Jun 19.9 °C 43 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
19 Jun 22.7 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
20 Jun 22.4 °C 36 % 26 km/h 1.7 mm Low 7
21 Jun 23.2 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
22 Jun 24.4 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
23 Jun 25.1 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 21
24 Jun 22.1 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
25 Jun 25.7 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jun 27.0 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
27 Jun 26.2 °C 12 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
28 Jun 23.3 °C 25 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jun 24.0 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 Jun 19.6 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
1 Jul 24.8 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
2 Jul after 19.1 °C 49 % 28 km/h 10.5 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2019
After · 8 Jul 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 · 1,736Every 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 Momsky Ulus fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 June 2019 and 1 July 2019: 10 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 19,419 hectares (194.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Momsky Ulus (19,626 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.0 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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.