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Nyurbinsky Ulus fire, 13 July 2018 Nyurbinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 20 Jul 2018, 04:23 UTC

The fire started on 13 July 2018 in Nyurbinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 34,316 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 136th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 27 in Russia in 2018, of 540.

Burnt area
34,316ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
13 Jul 2018 – 20 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Jul
2018
Heat detections
3,010
in a single hotspot: 989 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
69.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

20 Jul 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jul20 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
49km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.4 mm on 21 Jul.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 90 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Nyurbinsky Ulus where it started
    34,396 ha reached on 13 Jul
    0.7 %

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)
13 Jul 23.3 °C 31 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
14 Jul 21.4 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
15 Jul 21.5 °C 38 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
16 Jul 19.1 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 19
17 Jul 20.9 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jul 19.9 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
19 Jul 26.6 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
20 Jul 22.7 °C 32 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
21 Jul after 13.3 °C 43 % 50 km/h 2.4 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jul 2018
After · 27 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 · 3,010Every 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 13 July 2018 and 20 July 2018: 8 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 34,316 hectares (343.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nyurbinsky Ulus (34,396 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.6 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, 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.