Burned area
satellite only6,453ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2021 – 17 Apr 2021
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UZ · Uzbekistan · –
Muynak fire, 12 April 2021 Muynak
Out · last detection 17 Apr 2021, 09:33 UTC
The fire started on 12 April 2021 in Muynak, Uzbekistan, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,453 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 3th largest in Republic of Karakalpakstan since 2016 (of 49 with a page). Number 2 in Uzbekistan in 2021, of 13.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only6days
12 Apr 2021 to 17 Apr 2021: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 17 Apr 2021, 09:33 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only12 Apr 2021
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 12 Apr 2021
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only273
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 195 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2021 – 17 Apr 2021
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only2,495MW
Total radiative power on 13 April 2021; hotspots that day: 124.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Apr 2021
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model29.9FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 17.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 12 Apr 2021, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model27.9°C · 12% RH
High of 27.9 °C and minimum humidity of 12% on 16 April 2021; gusts of 46 km/h on 14 April 2021.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 12 Apr 2021 – 17 Apr 2021
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 6,453 ha
- Dates
- 12 Apr 2021 – 17 Apr 2021
- Name
- Muynak
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/muynak-2021-04-3?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire muynak-2021-04-3.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-12 | 49 | 1,427 | 22.4 | 9.6 | 18 | 23.3 | 45.4 | 0 | 29.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-13 | 124 | 2,495 | 24.7 | 7.7 | 16 | 22.7 | 42.1 | 0 | 30.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-14 | 53 | 596 | 24.8 | 9.1 | 17 | 24.8 | 46.4 | 0 | 33.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-15 | 40 | 1,156 | 24.9 | 9.6 | 13 | 15.7 | 34.2 | 0 | 29.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-16 | 5 | 72 | 27.9 | 9 | 12 | 10.5 | 22.7 | 0 | 28.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-17 | 2 | 10 | 27.9 | 10.5 | 15 | 14.7 | 32 | 0 | 32.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2021-04-18 | 0 | 0 | 28.5 | 12 | 14 | 18.1 | 35.3 | 0 | 36.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-19 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 16.9 | 18 | 22.9 | 50 | 0 | 42.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-20 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9.5 | 40 | 26.3 | 48.2 | 0 | 30.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-21 | 0 | 0 | 17.1 | 5.7 | 17 | 25.5 | 47.5 | 0 | 34.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-22 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 6.3 | 12 | 26.1 | 48.6 | 0 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-23 | 0 | 0 | 24.3 | 10 | 15 | 19.5 | 37.8 | 0 | 37 | alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-24 | 0 | 0 | 24.2 | 12.6 | 22 | 27.1 | 45.7 | 0 | 44.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-25 | 0 | 0 | 27.1 | 10.5 | 16 | 19.7 | 38.5 | 0 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-26 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 13.9 | 13 | 22.4 | 42.5 | 0 | 49.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2021-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 37.2 | 18.6 | 5 | 27.1 | 52.2 | 0 | 68.4 | extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 6,453ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 12 Apr 2021 – 17 Apr 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 12 Apr
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 273
- in a single hotspot: 195 MW
- Danger at start
- 30
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 960MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
12 Apr17 Apr
17 Apr 2021
How it evolved, day by day
13 Apr
16 Apr
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
28°high
46km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity
It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
25% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 198 ha in 2018, 1,411 ha in 2019.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
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).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
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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Muynak where it started6,359 ha reached on 12 Apr0.2 %
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 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Apr | 22.4 °C | 18 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 13 Apr | 24.7 °C | 16 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 14 Apr | 24.8 °C | 17 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 15 Apr | 24.9 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 16 Apr | 27.9 °C | 12 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 17 Apr | 27.9 °C | 15 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 18 Apr after | 28.5 °C | 14 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 19 Apr after | 28.0 °C | 18 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 20 Apr after | 17.0 °C | 40 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 21 Apr after | 17.1 °C | 17 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 22 Apr after | 22.5 °C | 12 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 23 Apr after | 24.3 °C | 15 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 24 Apr after | 24.2 °C | 22 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 25 Apr after | 27.1 °C | 16 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 26 Apr after | 34.1 °C | 13 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 27 Apr after | 37.2 °C | 5 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 29.9, a minimum humidity of 18% and 17 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2017: 7.
FWI at the start
29.9
Minimum humidity
18 %
Days without rain
17
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Muynak fire, 12 April 2021
6,453 ha
6 days
FWI 29.9
Min. humidity 18 %
Shumanay fire, March 2023
1,157 ha
1 day
FWI 29.6
Min. humidity 17 %
95 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.3 mm on 2 Apr.
Muynak fire, October 2018
2,017 ha
4 days
FWI 31.7
Min. humidity 21 %
97 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 27 Oct.
Khojeyli fire, April 2020
1,391 ha
1 day
FWI 21.9
Min. humidity 21 %
146 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.0 mm on 12 Apr.
Muynak fire, September 2018
5,125 ha
11 days
FWI 35.0
Min. humidity 23 %
42 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 14 Oct.
Muynak fire, September 2018
1,881 ha
2 days
FWI 41.2
Min. humidity 18 %
103 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 7. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
46km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 17 Apr, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.
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 2017.
- 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.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 5 Apr 2021
After · 24 Apr 2021
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Detections table · 273Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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 |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Muynak fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 April 2021 and 17 April 2021: 6 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 6,453 hectares (64.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Muynak (6,359 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 27.9 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class High.
- 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 · 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.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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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. 273 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 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.