How long did the Taskalinskiy fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 August 2017 and 15 August 2017: 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 3,329 hectares (33.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Taskalinskiy (3,298 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Kazakhstan (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

KZ · Kazakhstan · 2017-08-11 → 2017-08-15

Taskalinskiy fire, 11 August 2017 Тасқала ауданы · Taskalinskiy

Out · last detection 15 Aug 2017, 10:20 UTC

The fire started on 11 August 2017 in Taskalinskiy, Kazakhstan, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,329 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 50th largest in West Kazakhstan Region since 2016 (of 59 with a page). Number 207 in Kazakhstan in 2017, of 239.

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Burnt area: 3,329ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 5days; 11 Aug 2017 – 15 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 11 Aug; 2017
Heat detections: 137; in a single hotspot: 82 MW
Danger at start: 37; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 376MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Aug15 Aug

Play back 15 Aug 2017

How it evolved, day by day

11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high

42km/h · peak gust

22%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?

It burned the equivalent of 2.1% of the area of London (33 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

Taskalinskiy Тасқала ауданы where it started

3,298 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)
11 Aug	28.1 °C	26 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
12 Aug	32.2 °C	22 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
13 Aug	28.2 °C	30 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
14 Aug	26.5 °C	28 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
15 Aug	29.2 °C	25 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
16 Aug after	32.2 °C	19 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
17 Aug after	32.8 °C	24 %	35 km/h	0.7 mm	Very high 45
18 Aug after	32.0 °C	25 %	37 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 42
19 Aug after	32.5 °C	22 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
20 Aug after	32.7 °C	25 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
21 Aug after	31.7 °C	22 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
22 Aug after	34.0 °C	15 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
23 Aug after	35.8 °C	12 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 67
24 Aug after	34.2 °C	12 %	54 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 74
25 Aug after	28.5 °C	33 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 4 Aug 2017

After · 22 Aug 2017

Before After

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 · 137Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Taskalinskiy fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 August 2017 and 15 August 2017: 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 3,329 hectares (33.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Taskalinskiy (3,298 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Kazakhstan (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: 112

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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. 137 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.

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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 (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.

Where it burned