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Nyurbinsky Ulus fire, 16 July 2019 Nyurbinsky Ulus, Suntarsky Ulus

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2019, 19:19 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2019 in Nyurbinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 23,071 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 223th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 54 in Russia in 2019, of 613.

Burnt area
23,071ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
15days
16 Jul 2019 – 30 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
16 Jul
2019
Heat detections
3,731
in a single hotspot: 348 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
31.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

30 Jul 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul30 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

31°high
48km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.8 mm on 31 Jul.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 83 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Nyurbinsky Ulus where it started
    21,589 ha reached on 16 Jul
    0.4 %
  2. Suntarsky Ulus
    582 ha reached on 28 Jul
    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)
11 Jul 30.7 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
12 Jul 29.3 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
13 Jul 23.1 °C 60 % 28 km/h 1.6 mm Very low 4
14 Jul 26.5 °C 44 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Low 10
15 Jul 25.9 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
16 Jul 27.2 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
17 Jul 30.0 °C 33 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
18 Jul 19.1 °C 35 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
19 Jul 17.2 °C 35 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jul 21.6 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
21 Jul 25.5 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
22 Jul 28.5 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jul 26.4 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
24 Jul 29.2 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
25 Jul 28.8 °C 26 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jul 27.7 °C 34 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
27 Jul 26.8 °C 40 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
28 Jul 28.8 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
29 Jul 18.2 °C 50 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
30 Jul 20.4 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
31 Jul after 19.2 °C 43 % 23 km/h 5.8 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2019
After · 6 Aug 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 · 3,731Every 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 16 July 2019 and 30 July 2019: 15 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 23,071 hectares (230.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nyurbinsky Ulus (21,589 ha, 0.4 %); Suntarsky Ulus (582 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.7 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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.