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Tomponsky Ulus fire, 22 June 2019 Tomponsky Ulus

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2019, 18:22 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2019 in Tomponsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,420 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 253th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 60 in Russia in 2019, of 613.

Burnt area
21,420ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
22 Jun 2019 – 1 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jun
2019
Heat detections
1,170
in a single hotspot: 209 MW
Danger at start
15
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
18.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Jul 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun1 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

23242526272829301

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

The weather it burned in

28°high
37km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.9 mm on 2 Jul.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 430 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Tomponsky Ulus where it started
    20,870 ha reached on 21 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
21 Jun 23.7 °C 46 % 25 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 15
22 Jun 25.1 °C 41 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
23 Jun 23.1 °C 51 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
24 Jun 24.2 °C 40 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
25 Jun 20.7 °C 49 % 24 km/h 0.8 mm Low 11
26 Jun 23.3 °C 44 % 18 km/h 1.4 mm Low 7
27 Jun 27.3 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Jun 28.5 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Jun 26.9 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 Jun 24.5 °C 36 % 37 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 16
1 Jul 26.3 °C 34 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
2 Jul after 19.5 °C 60 % 42 km/h 5.9 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2019
After · 8 Jul 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 · 1,170Every 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 22 June 2019 and 1 July 2019: 10 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 21,420 hectares (214.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tomponsky Ulus (20,870 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.