Burned area
satellite only4,984ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 1 Jul 2023 – 14 Jul 2023
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Oymyakonsky Ulus fire, July 2023 Oymyakonsky Ulus
Out · last detection 14 Jul 2023, 00:39 UTC
The fire started on 1 July 2023 in Oymyakonsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,984 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 885th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1347 with a page). Number 240 in Russia in 2023, of 450.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only14days
1 Jul 2023 to 14 Jul 2023: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 14 Jul 2023, 00:39 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only1 Jul 2023
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 1 Jul 2023
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
The worst day
satellite only840MW
Total radiative power on 4 July 2023; hotspots that day: 68.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 4 Jul 2023
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model9.0FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 1 Jul 2023, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model29.1°C · 29% RH
High of 29.1 °C and minimum humidity of 29% on 2 July 2023; gusts of 54 km/h on 3 July 2023.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 1 Jul 2023 – 14 Jul 2023
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 27 June 2023 → 1 July 2023.
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logStart date: 1 July 2023 → 27 June 2023.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
Area logged each night
Move the slider to see which area the page published each day.
Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/oymyakonsky-ulus-2023-07?v=2026-10-27A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire oymyakonsky-ulus-2023-07.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-01 | 0 | 0 | 24.5 | 9.4 | 44 | 9.2 | 22.3 | 0.5 | 9 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 58 | 329 | 29.1 | 10.4 | 29 | 7.9 | 17.3 | 0 | 16.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-07-03 | 34 | 511 | 28.8 | 12.5 | 31 | 22.3 | 54.4 | 0.1 | 25.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-04 | 68 | 840 | 25.8 | 14.1 | 27 | 15.1 | 37.8 | 0 | 22.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-05 | 3 | 7 | 21.6 | 12.1 | 39 | 12.2 | 36 | 0.7 | 14.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-07-06 | 54 | 550 | 22.6 | 5.9 | 23 | 8.2 | 24.8 | 0 | 18.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-07-07 | 71 | 341 | 23.9 | 6.7 | 17 | 8.9 | 20.2 | 0.1 | 23.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-08 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 7.8 | 41 | 18.5 | 48.6 | 2.6 | 6.1 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-07-09 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4.8 | 44 | 17.8 | 45 | 0.6 | 8.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-07-10 | 11 | 60 | 15.1 | -0.6 | 23 | 11.6 | 32.8 | 0 | 14.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-07-11 | 27 | 178 | 21.1 | 2.7 | 31 | 13.8 | 32.4 | 0.2 | 18.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-07-12 | 22 | 137 | 25.3 | 11.9 | 27 | 19.1 | 41.8 | 0.1 | 26.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 18 | 186 | 24.4 | 13 | 40 | 13.7 | 36.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2023-07-14 | 6 | 95 | 21.7 | 11.4 | 50 | 15.4 | 38.5 | 0.6 | 8.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-07-15 | 0 | 0 | 23.2 | 10.1 | 47 | 12.6 | 30.6 | 5.7 | 2.2 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 4,984ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 14days
- 1 Jul 2023 – 14 Jul 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 Jul
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 372
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Danger at start
- 9
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 294MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Jul14 Jul
14 Jul 2023
How it evolved, day by day
4 Jul
10 Jul
13 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
29°high
54km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.7 mm on 15 Jul.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Moscow boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Oymyakonsky Ulus where it started5,057 ha0.0 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jul | 24.5 °C | 44 % | 22 km/h | 0.5 mm | Low 9 |
| 2 Jul | 29.1 °C | 29 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 3 Jul | 28.8 °C | 31 % | 54 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 4 Jul | 25.8 °C | 27 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 5 Jul | 21.6 °C | 39 % | 36 km/h | 0.7 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 6 Jul | 22.6 °C | 23 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 7 Jul | 23.9 °C | 17 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 8 Jul | 18.5 °C | 41 % | 49 km/h | 2.6 mm | Low 6 |
| 9 Jul | 11.0 °C | 44 % | 45 km/h | 0.6 mm | Low 9 |
| 10 Jul | 15.1 °C | 23 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 11 Jul | 21.1 °C | 31 % | 32 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 12 Jul | 25.3 °C | 27 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 13 Jul | 24.4 °C | 40 % | 37 km/h | 3.9 mm | Very low 4 |
| 14 Jul | 21.7 °C | 50 % | 38 km/h | 0.6 mm | Low 9 |
| 15 Jul after | 23.2 °C | 47 % | 31 km/h | 5.7 mm | Very low 2 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 9.0, a minimum humidity of 44% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 16.
FWI at the start
9.0
Minimum humidity
44 %
Days without rain
0
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Oymyakonsky Ulus fire, July 2023
4,984 ha
14 days
FWI 9.0
Min. humidity 44 %
Oymyakonsky Ulus fire, July 2020
7,279 ha
20 days
FWI 14.2
Min. humidity 43 %
66 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.3 mm on 11 Aug.
Oymyakonsky Ulus fire, August 2021
7,519 ha
10 days
FWI 10.0
Min. humidity 43 %
227 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.5 mm on 17 Aug.
Momsky Ulus fire, August 2023
5,285 ha
10 days
FWI 8.0
Min. humidity 41 %
242 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.2 mm on 19 Aug.
Momsky Ulus fire, June 2019
24,280 ha
14 days
FWI 5.5
Min. humidity 46 %
229 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 16.4 mm on 2 Jul.
Oymyakonsky Ulus fire, July 2021
4,656 ha
10 days
FWI 6.6
Min. humidity 39 %
133 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 19.9 mm on 22 Jul.
What happened to them
- 14 days
- median duration
- 5,607 ha
- median area
- 25 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 8.4 mm
- rain at the end (median; 16 of 16 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (4,984 ha against a median of 5,607 ha) and lasted 14 days, against 14 days.
All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 8.4 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
5.7 mmfirst rain
15 Julthe day after it ended
54km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 14 Jul, and on 15 Jul 5.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 16, with a median of 8.4 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 24 Jun 2023
After · 21 Jul 2023
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 15 July 2023 the air beside the fire reached 81 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 52: 3.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak81 µg/m³
Days over the guideline11 days
PM10116 µg/m³
Optical depth3.43
WHO 15
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Oymyakonsky Ulus fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 July 2023 and 14 July 2023: 14 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 4,984 hectares (49.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Oymyakonsky Ulus (5,057 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 29.1 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 16. Their median duration was 14 days and their median area 5,607 ha; 25 % went past 10,000 ha. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 8.4 mm.
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.
- Start date: 27 June 2023 → 1 July 2023.
- Start date: 1 July 2023 → 27 June 2023.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.