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Nyurbinsky Ulus fire, 9 July 2019 Nyurbinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 12 Jul 2019, 18:16 UTC

The fire started on 9 July 2019 in Nyurbinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,367 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1034th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 395 in Russia in 2019, of 611.

Burnt area
4,367ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
9 Jul 2019 – 12 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
9 Jul
2019
Heat detections
288
in a single hotspot: 206 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Average daily power
2.3GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

12 Jul 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Jul12 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

9 Jul 2019 · 3 MW · 2 10 Jul 2019 · 244 MW · 19 11 Jul 2019 · 175 MW · 46 12 Jul 2019 · 8,744 MW · 221
9 Jul 10 Jul 11 Jul 12 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
48km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.2 mm on 14 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
    4,156 ha reached on 9 Jul
    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)
2 Jul 20.4 °C 37 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Jul 14.3 °C 47 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
4 Jul 16.4 °C 44 % 48 km/h 7.5 mm Very low 1
5 Jul 17.3 °C 63 % 30 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 0
6 Jul 16.9 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
7 Jul 24.0 °C 56 % 34 km/h 1.1 mm Very low 4
8 Jul 25.6 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
9 Jul 27.0 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.2 mm Low 10
10 Jul 28.5 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
11 Jul 30.2 °C 29 % 13 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
12 Jul 31.1 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
13 Jul after 24.1 °C 61 % 26 km/h 0.9 mm Low 8
14 Jul after 24.6 °C 60 % 29 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Jul 2019
After · 19 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 · 288Every 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 9 July 2019 and 12 July 2019: 4 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 4,367 hectares (43.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nyurbinsky Ulus (4,156 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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.