How long did the Tattinsky Ulus fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 September 2020 and 26 September 2020: 22 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 9,119 hectares (91.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tattinsky Ulus (9,024 ha, 0.5 %); Tomponsky Ulus (328 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 20.9 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 45 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 · 2020-09-05 → 2020-09-26

Tattinsky Ulus fire, 5 September 2020 Tattinsky Ulus, Tomponsky Ulus

Out · last detection 26 Sept 2020, 01:21 UTC

The fire started on 5 September 2020 in Tattinsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,119 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 544th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 167 in Russia in 2020, of 594.

Burnt area: 9,119ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 22days; 5 Sept 2020 – 26 Sept 2020
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 5 Sept; 2020
Heat detections: 817; in a single hotspot: 120 MW
Danger at start: 19; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 5.0GW; sum of detected power

Play back 26 Sept 2020

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Sept26 Sept

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

21°high

45km/h · peak gust

23%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.3 mm on 27 Sept.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,068 ha in 2017.

1,068 ha Tomponsky Ulus fire, July 2017 52,181 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Tattinsky Ulus where it started

9,024 ha reached on 5 Sept

0.5 %
Tomponsky Ulus

328 ha reached on 24 Sept

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)
29 Aug	19.8 °C	23 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
30 Aug	16.9 °C	32 %	34 km/h	0.5 mm	Moderate 21
31 Aug	12.1 °C	75 %	26 km/h	4.1 mm	Very low 0
1 Sept	15.8 °C	55 %	12 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 2
2 Sept	17.5 °C	47 %	17 km/h	1.6 mm	Very low 2
3 Sept	16.4 °C	61 %	21 km/h	4.8 mm	Very low 0
4 Sept	20.5 °C	43 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 3
5 Sept	20.9 °C	35 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
6 Sept	18.5 °C	50 %	17 km/h	0.2 mm	Low 8
7 Sept	17.0 °C	41 %	24 km/h	0.8 mm	Low 7
8 Sept	16.4 °C	35 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
9 Sept	17.9 °C	35 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
10 Sept	18.7 °C	31 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
11 Sept	18.6 °C	33 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
12 Sept	19.0 °C	31 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
13 Sept	19.8 °C	26 %	25 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 18
14 Sept	12.9 °C	55 %	45 km/h	2.7 mm	Very low 4
15 Sept	10.7 °C	69 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 3
16 Sept	13.9 °C	50 %	17 km/h	0.1 mm	Very low 4
17 Sept	15.6 °C	34 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
18 Sept	15.8 °C	31 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
19 Sept	17.4 °C	26 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
20 Sept	17.7 °C	33 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
21 Sept	14.9 °C	44 %	13 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
22 Sept	12.2 °C	57 %	11 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
23 Sept	11.9 °C	46 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
24 Sept	13.8 °C	37 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
25 Sept	13.9 °C	36 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
26 Sept	12.0 °C	37 %	36 km/h	1.4 mm	Low 7
27 Sept after	13.2 °C	58 %	35 km/h	8.3 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 29 Aug 2020

After · 3 Oct 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 · 817Every 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 5 September 2020 and 26 September 2020: 22 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 9,119 hectares (91.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tattinsky Ulus (9,024 ha, 0.5 %); Tomponsky Ulus (328 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 20.9 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 45 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

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

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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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