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Tomponsky Ulus fire, 5 June 2019 Tomponsky Ulus

Out · last detection 19 Jun 2019, 01:39 UTC

The fire started on 5 June 2019 in Tomponsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,031 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 503th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 170 in Russia in 2019, of 613.

The power measured by the satellite is low (25.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
10,031ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
14days
5 Jun 2019 – 18 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
5 Jun
2019
Heat detections
609
in a single hotspot: 26 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Energy released
3.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Jun18 Jun

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

27°high
49km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 20 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Tomponsky Ulus where it started
    9,612 ha reached on 4 Jun
    0.1 %

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 May 20.2 °C 33 % 30 km/h 1.1 mm Low 6
30 May 16.6 °C 42 % 29 km/h 7.1 mm Very low 1
31 May 20.5 °C 29 % 35 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 2
1 Jun 16.1 °C 51 % 29 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 1
2 Jun 20.8 °C 35 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
3 Jun 23.4 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm Low 10
4 Jun 22.5 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
5 Jun 23.8 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
6 Jun 21.0 °C 48 % 30 km/h 1.3 mm Low 5
7 Jun 22.4 °C 19 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
8 Jun 23.5 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
9 Jun 23.8 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
10 Jun 23.1 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
11 Jun 23.0 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
12 Jun 24.5 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
13 Jun 22.1 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
14 Jun 24.0 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
15 Jun 24.3 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
16 Jun 24.0 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
17 Jun 27.2 °C 29 % 36 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 17
18 Jun 26.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Jun after 26.0 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jun after 26.6 °C 33 % 23 km/h 1.4 mm Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 May 2019
After · 25 Jun 2019

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 · 609Every 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 Tomponsky Ulus fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 June 2019 and 18 June 2019: 14 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 10,031 hectares (100.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tomponsky Ulus (9,612 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 49 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.