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Nyurbinsky Ulus fire, June 2020 Nyurbinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 18 Jul 2020, 18:40 UTC

The fire started on 28 June 2020 in Nyurbinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,734 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 737th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 244 in Russia in 2020, of 592.

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Burnt area
6,734ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
21days
28 Jun 2020 – 18 Jul 2020
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
28 Jun
2020
Heat detections
687
in a single hotspot: 388 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
710MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun18 Jul
18 Jul 2020

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jun 2020 · 48 MW · 4 29 Jun 2020 · 6 MW · 1 30 Jun 2020 · 28 MW · 4 1 Jul 2020 · 5 MW · 1 2 Jul 2020 · 337 MW · 15 3 Jul 2020 · 208 MW · 34 4 Jul 2020 · 19 MW · 5 7 Jul 2020 · 5 MW · 1 8 Jul 2020 · 467 MW · 32 9 Jul 2020 · 371 MW · 40 10 Jul 2020 · 964 MW · 78 11 Jul 2020 · 98 MW · 12 12 Jul 2020 · 3,980 MW · 111 13 Jul 2020 · 792 MW · 98 14 Jul 2020 · 1,615 MW · 85 15 Jul 2020 · 3,124 MW · 158 18 Jul 2020 · 8 MW · 8
28 Jun 1 Jul 4 Jul 9 Jul 12 Jul 15 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

32°high
53km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.8 mm on 20 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.3% of the area of London (67 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Nyurbinsky Ulus where it started
    6,748 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.1 %

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.

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)
28 Jun 29.4 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
29 Jun 30.9 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
30 Jun 31.7 °C 28 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
1 Jul 32.1 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
2 Jul 27.4 °C 27 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Jul 19.1 °C 47 % 52 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
4 Jul 18.6 °C 38 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
5 Jul 20.1 °C 28 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
6 Jul 16.8 °C 42 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 19
7 Jul 19.5 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
8 Jul 23.6 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Jul 24.6 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.4 mm High 27
10 Jul 26.5 °C 38 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
11 Jul 29.1 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
12 Jul 27.0 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
13 Jul 27.8 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Jul 29.4 °C 28 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
15 Jul 29.2 °C 32 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
16 Jul 24.3 °C 48 % 34 km/h 2.2 mm Low 8
17 Jul 21.5 °C 50 % 26 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
18 Jul 22.6 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
19 Jul after 20.6 °C 46 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Jul after 16.0 °C 70 % 30 km/h 7.8 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2020
After · 25 Jul 2020

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 · 687Every 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?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 June 2020 to 18 July 2020 (21 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 July 2020 to 16 July 2020.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,734 hectares (67.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nyurbinsky Ulus (6,748 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.1 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 53 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 16 July 2020 → 18 July 2020.
  2. Start date: 2 July 2020 → 28 June 2020.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 2 July 2020 to 16 July 2020. 687 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.