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Muynak fire, June 2019 Muynak

Out · last detection 2 Jun 2019, 08:38 UTC

The fire started on 1 June 2019 in Muynak, Uzbekistan, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,045 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 51th largest in Republic of Karakalpakstan since 2016 (of 54 with a page). Number 8 in Uzbekistan in 2019, of 9.

Burnt area
1,045ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
1 Jun 2019 – 2 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jun
2019
Heat detections
23
in a single hotspot: 191 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jun2 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

12

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
44km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 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: 61 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Muynak where it started
    1,035 ha reached on 1 Jun
    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)
1 Jun 32.5 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 40
2 Jun 36.2 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
3 Jun after 37.7 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Jun after 38.8 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
5 Jun after 32.4 °C 25 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
6 Jun after 28.3 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
7 Jun after 34.5 °C 16 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
8 Jun after 30.9 °C 15 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
9 Jun after 28.0 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
10 Jun after 31.1 °C 17 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
11 Jun after 34.2 °C 12 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Jun after 36.2 °C 11 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 May 2019
After · 9 Jun 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 · 23Every 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 Muynak fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 June 2019 and 2 June 2019: 2 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 1,045 hectares (10.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Muynak (1,035 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Uzbekistan (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: 101 · 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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.