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Turukhansky District fire, 6 June 2016 Turukhansky District

Out · last detection 4 Aug 2016, 23:18 UTC

The fire started on 6 June 2016 in Turukhansky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 60 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 12,529 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

It is the 134th largest in Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2016 (of 656 with a page). Number 157 in Russia in 2016, of 692.

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Burnt area
12,529ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
60days
6 Jun 2016 – 4 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
6 Jun
2016
Heat detections
1,807
in a single hotspot: 152 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
327MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jun4 Aug
4 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

6 Jun 2016 · 6 MW · 2 7 Jun 2016 · 5 MW · 1 9 Jun 2016 · 4 MW · 1 10 Jun 2016 · 8 MW · 2 11 Jun 2016 · 4 MW · 1 12 Jun 2016 · 13 MW · 4 13 Jun 2016 · 16 MW · 5 14 Jun 2016 · 6 MW · 2 15 Jun 2016 · 7 MW · 2 16 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 4 17 Jun 2016 · 20 MW · 6 18 Jun 2016 · 10 MW · 3 19 Jun 2016 · 11 MW · 3 20 Jun 2016 · 7 MW · 2 21 Jun 2016 · 3 MW · 1 22 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 4 23 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 4 24 Jun 2016 · 8 MW · 5 25 Jun 2016 · 5 MW · 2 27 Jun 2016 · 13 MW · 4 28 Jun 2016 · 3 MW · 1 29 Jun 2016 · 9 MW · 2 30 Jun 2016 · 6 MW · 2 1 Jul 2016 · 15 MW · 5 2 Jul 2016 · 27 MW · 8 3 Jul 2016 · 9 MW · 3 4 Jul 2016 · 21 MW · 4 5 Jul 2016 · 13 MW · 4 6 Jul 2016 · 22 MW · 5 7 Jul 2016 · 7 MW · 2 8 Jul 2016 · 7 MW · 2 9 Jul 2016 · 14 MW · 4 10 Jul 2016 · 20 MW · 5 11 Jul 2016 · 5 MW · 1 12 Jul 2016 · 5 MW · 1 13 Jul 2016 · 3 MW · 2 14 Jul 2016 · 20 MW · 6 15 Jul 2016 · 17 MW · 5 16 Jul 2016 · 146 MW · 29 17 Jul 2016 · 703 MW · 46 18 Jul 2016 · 944 MW · 68 19 Jul 2016 · 1,356 MW · 170 20 Jul 2016 · 2,714 MW · 254 21 Jul 2016 · 2,623 MW · 306 22 Jul 2016 · 3,240 MW · 177 23 Jul 2016 · 1,456 MW · 144 24 Jul 2016 · 309 MW · 73 25 Jul 2016 · 975 MW · 134 26 Jul 2016 · 2,124 MW · 234 28 Jul 2016 · 103 MW · 28 30 Jul 2016 · 1 MW · 1 1 Aug 2016 · 197 MW · 21 4 Aug 2016 · 9 MW · 2
6 Jun 15 Jun 23 Jun 2 Jul 10 Jul 18 Jul 22 Jul 26 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
71km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.0 mm on 5 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 7.9% of the area of London (125 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Turukhansky District where it started
    14,191 ha reached on 6 Jun
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2015
Built-up area0.31 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.31 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
6 Jun 20.3 °C 42 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
7 Jun 18.1 °C 62 % 56 km/h 5.1 mm Very low 1
8 Jun 13.1 °C 46 % 44 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 1
9 Jun 21.2 °C 47 % 22 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 2
10 Jun 27.0 °C 40 % 61 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 14
11 Jun 17.3 °C 57 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
12 Jun 16.4 °C 46 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
13 Jun 19.4 °C 35 % 30 km/h 1.0 mm Low 6
14 Jun 21.0 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
15 Jun 22.3 °C 30 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
16 Jun 19.7 °C 37 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Jun 22.3 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
18 Jun 22.2 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
19 Jun 24.1 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
20 Jun 26.7 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
21 Jun 23.9 °C 51 % 51 km/h 3.9 mm Low 6
22 Jun 16.5 °C 47 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
23 Jun 20.1 °C 44 % 34 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 4
24 Jun 22.7 °C 42 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Jun 26.6 °C 36 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
26 Jun 27.5 °C 41 % 39 km/h 5.6 mm Very low 5
27 Jun 24.1 °C 67 % 36 km/h 9.3 mm Very low 0
28 Jun 26.7 °C 55 % 45 km/h 0.3 mm Low 5
29 Jun 30.0 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
30 Jun 21.8 °C 53 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
1 Jul 17.3 °C 45 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Jul 21.6 °C 43 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
3 Jul 22.6 °C 42 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
4 Jul 23.9 °C 38 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jul 25.5 °C 39 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
6 Jul 29.0 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 Jul 27.5 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Jul 27.2 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
9 Jul 28.8 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
10 Jul 23.2 °C 38 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
11 Jul 19.2 °C 62 % 31 km/h 0.8 mm Low 10
12 Jul 23.5 °C 53 % 29 km/h 1.7 mm Very low 4
13 Jul 24.3 °C 43 % 26 km/h 1.1 mm Low 7
14 Jul 24.2 °C 35 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
15 Jul 28.0 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
16 Jul 28.2 °C 29 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Jul 28.4 °C 30 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Jul 28.9 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Jul 27.9 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
20 Jul 28.1 °C 48 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Jul 29.2 °C 42 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
22 Jul 28.0 °C 58 % 31 km/h 1.2 mm Low 11
23 Jul 20.6 °C 42 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
24 Jul 16.6 °C 53 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
25 Jul 17.9 °C 48 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
26 Jul 19.0 °C 45 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
27 Jul 21.1 °C 49 % 32 km/h 4.3 mm Very low 5
28 Jul 14.0 °C 59 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
29 Jul 13.1 °C 65 % 35 km/h 1.4 mm Low 6
30 Jul 14.0 °C 55 % 30 km/h 0.2 mm Low 8
31 Jul 13.3 °C 58 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
1 Aug 19.2 °C 50 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
2 Aug 15.6 °C 66 % 50 km/h 8.4 mm Very low 2
3 Aug 14.6 °C 55 % 43 km/h 0.9 mm Low 6
4 Aug 15.7 °C 65 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
5 Aug after 18.5 °C 55 % 49 km/h 12.0 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 May 2016
After · 11 Aug 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 · 1,807Every 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 Turukhansky District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 June 2016 to 4 August 2016 (60 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 June 2016 to 28 July 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 12,529 hectares (125.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Turukhansky District (14,191 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 71 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 28 July 2016 → 4 August 2016.
  2. Start date: 10 June 2016 → 6 June 2016.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 June 2016 to 28 July 2016. 1,807 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.