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Tyndinsky District fire, 20 June 2017 Tyndinsky District

Out · last detection 27 Jun 2017, 03:55 UTC

The fire started on 20 June 2017 in Tyndinsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,241 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 491th largest in Amur Oblast since 2016 (of 535 with a page). Number 335 in Russia in 2017, of 369.

Burnt area
3,241ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
20 Jun 2017 – 27 Jun 2017
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
20 Jun
2017
Heat detections
239
in a single hotspot: 83 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Energy released
1.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

27 Jun 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jun27 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2021222324252627

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
36km/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: 16.5 mm on 28 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. Tyndinsky District where it started
    3,183 ha reached on 16 Jun
    0.0 %

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)
16 Jun 22.9 °C 40 % 29 km/h 1.1 mm Low 6
17 Jun 20.6 °C 53 % 35 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 1
18 Jun 23.9 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
19 Jun 25.3 °C 34 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Low 11
20 Jun 26.5 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 13
21 Jun 27.3 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 14
22 Jun 29.2 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 14
23 Jun 30.6 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Jun 31.2 °C 27 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
25 Jun 32.4 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
26 Jun 31.9 °C 26 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
27 Jun 25.8 °C 53 % 36 km/h 4.0 mm Very low 3
28 Jun after 23.4 °C 64 % 28 km/h 16.5 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Jun 2017
After · 4 Jul 2017

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 · 239Every 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 Tyndinsky District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 June 2017 and 27 June 2017: 8 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 3,241 hectares (32.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tyndinsky District (3,183 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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.