Skip to content
worldfires
RU · Russia · →

Tattinsky Ulus fire, 21 July 2020 Tattinsky Ulus

Out · last detection 11 Aug 2020, 04:03 UTC

The fire started on 21 July 2020 in Tattinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,123 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 618th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 196 in Russia in 2020, of 594.

Burnt area
8,123ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
21days
21 Jul 2020 – 10 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
21 Jul
2020
Heat detections
962
in a single hotspot: 147 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
6.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Aug 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jul10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

212223242526272930311234567891011

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
56km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 11 Aug.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Tattinsky Ulus where it started
    8,019 ha reached on 17 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)
17 Jul 30.1 °C 35 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
18 Jul 33.6 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 21
19 Jul 24.6 °C 72 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
20 Jul 33.5 °C 39 % 37 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 20
21 Jul 26.6 °C 36 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
22 Jul 20.3 °C 45 % 49 km/h 0.5 mm High 23
23 Jul 26.4 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
24 Jul 29.6 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
25 Jul 31.0 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
26 Jul 21.6 °C 51 % 35 km/h 15.8 mm Very low 1
27 Jul 27.1 °C 33 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
28 Jul 22.2 °C 63 % 21 km/h 2.0 mm Very low 3
29 Jul 23.9 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
30 Jul 23.2 °C 31 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
31 Jul 24.6 °C 37 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
1 Aug 25.9 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
2 Aug 26.7 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
3 Aug 25.1 °C 40 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 19
4 Aug 25.7 °C 36 % 21 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 18
5 Aug 24.7 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
6 Aug 24.7 °C 38 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
7 Aug 26.1 °C 34 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
8 Aug 26.1 °C 32 % 13 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
9 Aug 26.0 °C 32 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
10 Aug 25.3 °C 36 % 32 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 15
11 Aug after 20.2 °C 54 % 24 km/h 2.0 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jul 2020
After · 17 Aug 2020

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 · 962Every 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

Other fires nearby

All fires in Russia ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tattinsky Ulus fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 July 2020 and 10 August 2020: 21 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 8,123 hectares (81.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tattinsky Ulus (8,019 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class High.
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

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

Does something look wrong on this page?

This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 112.

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.