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Tailai County fire, 7 March 2017 泰来县 · Tailai County

Out · last measured on 16 Mar 2017

The fire started on 7 March 2017 in Tailai County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,393 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1040th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1765 with a page). Number 145 in China in 2017, of 266.

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We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
1,393ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
7 Mar 2017 – 16 Mar 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
7 Mar
2017
Danger at start
5
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

11°high
53km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 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 0.9% of the area of London (14 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. Tailai County 泰来县 where it started
    1,391 ha
    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)
7 Mar 1.4 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
8 Mar 4.5 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
9 Mar 5.3 °C 22 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
10 Mar 7.6 °C 24 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
11 Mar 8.7 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
12 Mar 4.4 °C 22 % 53 km/h 0.5 mm Low 8
13 Mar 5.1 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
14 Mar 6.4 °C 21 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
15 Mar 9.8 °C 24 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
16 Mar 11.0 °C 22 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
17 Mar after 11.5 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
18 Mar after 11.9 °C 20 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
19 Mar after 6.9 °C 17 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
20 Mar after 7.0 °C 35 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
21 Mar after 8.6 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
22 Mar after 5.6 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
23 Mar after 7.7 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
24 Mar after 9.7 °C 22 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Mar after 9.8 °C 27 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
26 Mar after 9.5 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Feb 2017
After · 23 Mar 2017

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tailai County fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 March 2017 and 16 March 2017: 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 1,393 hectares (13.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tailai County (1,391 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 11.0 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of China (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: 119

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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.

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 ADM3 (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.