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Tomponsky Ulus fire, July 2019 Tomponsky Ulus

Out · last detection 2 Aug 2019, 16:41 UTC

The fire started on 22 July 2019 in Tomponsky Ulus, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 36,111 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 129th largest in Sakha Republic since 2016 (of 1422 with a page). Number 25 in Russia in 2019, of 613.

Burnt area
36,111ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
22 Jul 2019 – 2 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jul
2019
Heat detections
2,582
in a single hotspot: 95 MW
Danger at start
2
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
21.7GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Aug 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jul2 Aug

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

28°high
40km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.0 mm on 3 Aug.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 277 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Tomponsky Ulus where it started
    34,069 ha reached on 22 Jul
    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)
15 Jul 27.2 °C 50 % 23 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 2
16 Jul 26.2 °C 29 % 26 km/h 6.4 mm Very low 1
17 Jul 25.8 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
18 Jul 17.5 °C 64 % 40 km/h 20.5 mm Very low 0
19 Jul 11.1 °C 67 % 20 km/h 0.5 mm Very low 0
20 Jul 13.2 °C 51 % 27 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 1
21 Jul 18.9 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
22 Jul 21.8 °C 26 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
23 Jul 22.9 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
24 Jul 24.2 °C 29 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
25 Jul 26.4 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
26 Jul 27.4 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
27 Jul 26.7 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
28 Jul 28.1 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
29 Jul 28.5 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
30 Jul 21.9 °C 39 % 37 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 4
31 Jul 19.7 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
1 Aug 19.4 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
2 Aug 18.5 °C 37 % 25 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 14
3 Aug after 18.3 °C 38 % 33 km/h 10.0 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jul 2019
After · 9 Aug 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 · 2,582Every 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 July 2019 and 2 August 2019: 12 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 36,111 hectares (361.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tomponsky Ulus (34,069 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 40 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.