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Peshku fire, July 2018 Peshku

Out · last detection 31 Jul 2018, 21:33 UTC

The fire started on 22 July 2018 in Peshku, Uzbekistan, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,301 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

Number 11 in Uzbekistan in 2018, of 13.

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Burnt area
1,301ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
22 Jul 2018 – 31 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jul
2018
Heat detections
74
in a single hotspot: 154 MW
Danger at start
85
Very extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
198MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jul31 Jul
31 Jul 2018

How it evolved, day by day

22 Jul 2018 · 56 MW · 3 23 Jul 2018 · 14 MW · 4 24 Jul 2018 · 308 MW · 19 25 Jul 2018 · 79 MW · 9 26 Jul 2018 · 555 MW · 6 27 Jul 2018 · 1 MW · 1 28 Jul 2018 · 136 MW · 3 29 Jul 2018 · 86 MW · 8 30 Jul 2018 · 618 MW · 15 31 Jul 2018 · 123 MW · 5
22 Jul 24 Jul 26 Jul 28 Jul 30 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

47°high
62km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 47 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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 0.8% of the area of London (13 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. Peshku where it started
    1,296 ha reached on 20 Jul
    0.2 %

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 2020
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.

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)
20 Jul 43.2 °C 9 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 85
21 Jul 44.6 °C 10 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 86
22 Jul 47.0 °C 11 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 89
23 Jul 41.1 °C 16 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 81
24 Jul 36.6 °C 10 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
25 Jul 36.0 °C 16 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 90
26 Jul 35.2 °C 14 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 78
27 Jul 36.1 °C 12 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 84
28 Jul 37.2 °C 15 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 79
29 Jul 38.1 °C 12 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
30 Jul 38.1 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
31 Jul 38.1 °C 11 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
1 Aug after 36.9 °C 18 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
2 Aug after 34.1 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
3 Aug after 36.4 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
4 Aug after 38.5 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
5 Aug after 40.4 °C 12 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
6 Aug after 42.5 °C 14 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 78
7 Aug after 36.5 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
8 Aug after 38.9 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
9 Aug after 39.8 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
10 Aug after 41.4 °C 12 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 72

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jul 2018
After · 7 Aug 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 · 74Every 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 Peshku fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 July 2018 and 31 July 2018: 10 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 1,301 hectares (13.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Peshku (1,296 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 47.0 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 94, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Uzbekistan (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.

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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. 74 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 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.