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Peshku fire, July 2022 Peshku

Out · last detection 26 Jul 2022, 09:15 UTC

The fire started on 12 July 2022 in Peshku, Uzbekistan, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,452 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

Number 2 in Uzbekistan in 2022, of 6.

Burnt area
3,452ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
14days
12 Jul 2022 – 25 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
12 Jul
2022
Heat detections
335
in a single hotspot: 195 MW
Danger at start
52
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
6.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

26 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Jul25 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

46°high
72km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone 44 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,218 ha in 2018, 1,359 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,716 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Peshku where it started
    3,438 ha reached on 5 Jul
    0.4 %

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)
5 Jul 32.0 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
6 Jul 34.9 °C 16 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
7 Jul 31.9 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
8 Jul 34.7 °C 13 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
9 Jul 35.3 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 70
10 Jul 36.1 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
11 Jul 37.0 °C 14 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
12 Jul 36.2 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
13 Jul 38.8 °C 14 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
14 Jul 39.7 °C 12 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 93
15 Jul 40.8 °C 10 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 78
16 Jul 41.7 °C 8 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 83
17 Jul 43.3 °C 10 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 96
18 Jul 42.6 °C 10 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 93
19 Jul 41.1 °C 12 % 72 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 120
20 Jul 42.3 °C 9 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 105
21 Jul 44.5 °C 9 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 104
22 Jul 45.8 °C 9 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
23 Jul 45.6 °C 10 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
24 Jul 42.9 °C 12 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 77
25 Jul 43.4 °C 12 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
26 Jul after 40.2 °C 18 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 103
27 Jul after 37.7 °C 19 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 70
28 Jul after 37.9 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
29 Jul after 39.0 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
30 Jul after 37.3 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
31 Jul after 36.6 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
1 Aug after 34.5 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
2 Aug after 35.9 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
3 Aug after 35.6 °C 17 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
4 Aug after 36.6 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jul 2022
After · 1 Aug 2022

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 · 335Every 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 12 July 2022 and 25 July 2022: 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 3,452 hectares (34.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Peshku (3,438 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 45.8 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 72 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 120, 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.

Emergency number: 101 · 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 (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.