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Tayshetsky Rayon fire, 11 September 2016 Tayshetsky Rayon

Out · last detection 28 Sept 2016, 05:38 UTC

The fire started on 11 September 2016 in Tayshetsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 17,356 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 63th largest in Irkutsk Oblast since 2016 (of 428 with a page). Number 98 in Russia in 2016, of 694.

Burnt area
17,356ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
18days
11 Sept 2016 – 28 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
11 Sept
2016
Heat detections
3,464
in a single hotspot: 326 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
30.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Sept28 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

22°high
47km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.8 mm on 29 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Tayshetsky Rayon where it started
    18,001 ha reached on 10 Sept
    0.6 %

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)
10 Sept 21.9 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 Sept 21.3 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
12 Sept 21.7 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
13 Sept 19.4 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
14 Sept 20.2 °C 24 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
15 Sept 20.1 °C 31 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
16 Sept 19.6 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
17 Sept 20.8 °C 35 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Sept 20.1 °C 43 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
19 Sept 18.1 °C 50 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
20 Sept 17.0 °C 43 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
21 Sept 16.3 °C 50 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
22 Sept 13.9 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
23 Sept 11.5 °C 40 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
24 Sept 12.7 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
25 Sept 9.3 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
26 Sept 10.3 °C 41 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
27 Sept 13.2 °C 29 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
28 Sept 11.1 °C 40 % 37 km/h 2.0 mm Low 6
29 Sept after 6.1 °C 83 % 27 km/h 6.8 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Sept 2016
After · 5 Oct 2016

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 · 3,464Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tayshetsky Rayon fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 September 2016 and 28 September 2016: 18 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 17,356 hectares (173.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tayshetsky Rayon (18,001 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 21.9 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, 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

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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.