How long did the Tattinsky Ulus fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 July 2020 and 10 August 2020: 31 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 132,062 hectares (1,320.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tomponsky Ulus (72,553 ha, 0.5 %); Tattinsky Ulus (54,847 ha, 2.9 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.

Where does this data come from?

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

RU · Russia · 2020-07-11 → 2020-08-10

Tattinsky Ulus fire, 11 July 2020 Tomponsky Ulus, Tattinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2020, 04:22 UTC

The fire started on 11 July 2020 in Tattinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 132,062 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

It is the 25th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 3 in Russia in 2020, of 594.

Burnt area: 132,062ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 31days; 11 Jul 2020 – 10 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 11 Jul; 2020
Heat detections: 14,007; in a single hotspot: 599 MW
Danger at start: 4; Very low · FWI index
Energy released: 122.0GW; sum of detected power

Play back 10 Aug 2020

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jul10 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

32°high

54km/h · peak gust

29%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 11 Aug.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 196 ha in 2018, 1,060 ha in 2019.

1,060 ha Tattinsky Ulus fire, July 2019 18,504 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Tomponsky Ulus

72,553 ha reached on 14 Jul

0.5 %
Tattinsky Ulus where it started

54,847 ha reached on 11 Jul

2.9 %

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 Jul	22.5 °C	56 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 4
12 Jul	27.1 °C	45 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
13 Jul	30.6 °C	44 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
14 Jul	27.9 °C	38 %	37 km/h	1.5 mm	Low 6
15 Jul	25.9 °C	37 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
16 Jul	26.0 °C	37 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
17 Jul	28.8 °C	36 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
18 Jul	31.6 °C	37 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
19 Jul	24.0 °C	70 %	32 km/h	2.6 mm	Very low 2
20 Jul	30.8 °C	46 %	39 km/h	1.6 mm	Low 7
21 Jul	26.0 °C	38 %	54 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
22 Jul	20.7 °C	50 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
23 Jul	24.0 °C	38 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
24 Jul	27.3 °C	33 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
25 Jul	29.2 °C	29 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
26 Jul	21.5 °C	46 %	39 km/h	5.0 mm	Very low 3
27 Jul	24.4 °C	35 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
28 Jul	20.8 °C	61 %	20 km/h	5.2 mm	Very low 1
29 Jul	22.8 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 5
30 Jul	22.1 °C	29 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
31 Jul	23.1 °C	39 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
1 Aug	23.7 °C	33 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
2 Aug	25.7 °C	29 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
3 Aug	25.1 °C	35 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
4 Aug	24.6 °C	35 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
5 Aug	24.1 °C	33 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
6 Aug	23.9 °C	37 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
7 Aug	24.3 °C	37 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
8 Aug	24.0 °C	31 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
9 Aug	24.6 °C	34 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
10 Aug	24.5 °C	40 %	35 km/h	5.3 mm	Very low 3
11 Aug after	19.0 °C	59 %	27 km/h	2.8 mm	Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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Before · 4 Jul 2020

After · 17 Aug 2020

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 · 14,007Every 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 Tattinsky Ulus fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 July 2020 and 10 August 2020: 31 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 132,062 hectares (1,320.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tomponsky Ulus (72,553 ha, 0.5 %); Tattinsky Ulus (54,847 ha, 2.9 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Russia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

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Emergency number: 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 (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.

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