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Peshku fire, August 2022 Peshku, Jondor

Out · last detection 23 Aug 2022, 21:08 UTC

The fire started on 18 August 2022 in Peshku, Uzbekistan, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,339 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 5 in Uzbekistan in 2022, of 6.

Burnt area
1,339ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
18 Aug 2022 – 22 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
18 Aug
2022
Heat detections
90
in a single hotspot: 164 MW
Danger at start
64
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
849MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

23 Aug 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Aug22 Aug

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

40°high
64km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 346 ha in 2018, 316 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 620 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Peshku where it started
    1,289 ha reached on 11 Aug
    0.2 %
  2. Jondor
    46 ha
    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 Aug 34.9 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
12 Aug 36.1 °C 16 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
13 Aug 37.6 °C 14 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
14 Aug 38.6 °C 13 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 77
15 Aug 40.4 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
16 Aug 38.8 °C 13 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 78
17 Aug 39.0 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
18 Aug 35.3 °C 12 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 79
19 Aug 35.5 °C 12 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 99
20 Aug 32.9 °C 17 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 81
21 Aug 29.3 °C 15 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 86
22 Aug 31.7 °C 12 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 76
23 Aug after 33.1 °C 11 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
24 Aug after 32.9 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
25 Aug after 33.0 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
26 Aug after 34.1 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
27 Aug after 35.3 °C 10 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
28 Aug after 36.0 °C 10 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
29 Aug after 36.6 °C 7 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
30 Aug after 37.3 °C 9 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
31 Aug after 36.0 °C 12 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
1 Sept after 37.0 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Aug 2022
After · 29 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 19 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.22
16171819202122232425
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 90Every 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 18 August 2022 and 22 August 2022: 5 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 1,339 hectares (13.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Peshku (1,289 ha, 0.2 %); Jondor (46 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 99, 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.