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Nyurbinsky Ulus fire, 23 June 2018 Nyurbinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 3 Jul 2018, 18:28 UTC

The fire started on 23 June 2018 in Nyurbinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,359 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 771th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 228 in Russia in 2018, of 540.

Burnt area
6,359ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
23 Jun 2018 – 3 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
23 Jun
2018
Heat detections
513
in a single hotspot: 316 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
6.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

3 Jul 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jun3 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

32°high
46km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.1 mm on 4 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. Nyurbinsky Ulus where it started
    6,203 ha reached on 23 Jun
    0.1 %

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)
17 Jun 21.7 °C 29 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jun 21.8 °C 31 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Jun 22.6 °C 41 % 24 km/h 3.2 mm Low 5
20 Jun 21.1 °C 43 % 38 km/h 4.3 mm Very low 4
21 Jun 22.2 °C 46 % 33 km/h 0.3 mm Low 8
22 Jun 25.8 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
23 Jun 27.8 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 16
24 Jun 27.0 °C 41 % 23 km/h 1.1 mm Low 11
25 Jun 28.7 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 21
26 Jun 24.3 °C 38 % 39 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 19
27 Jun 22.0 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Jun 26.5 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
29 Jun 24.4 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
30 Jun 26.3 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
1 Jul 29.6 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul 29.4 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Jul 31.5 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Jul after 22.6 °C 47 % 34 km/h 3.1 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jun 2018
After · 10 Jul 2018

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 · 513Every 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 Nyurbinsky Ulus fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 June 2018 and 3 July 2018: 11 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 6,359 hectares (63.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nyurbinsky Ulus (6,203 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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

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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.