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Tyndinsky District fire, September 2020 Tyndinsky District, Neryungrinsky Municipal District

Out · last detection 21 Sept 2020, 18:24 UTC

The fire started on 10 September 2020 in Tyndinsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,147 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 262th largest in Amur Oblast since 2016 (of 535 with a page). Number 272 in Russia in 2020, of 592.

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Burnt area
6,147ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
10 Sept 2020 – 21 Sept 2020
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
10 Sept
2020
Heat detections
651
in a single hotspot: 108 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
581MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Sept21 Sept
21 Sept 2020

How it evolved, day by day

10 Sept 2020 · 76 MW · 31 11 Sept 2020 · 174 MW · 19 12 Sept 2020 · 1,177 MW · 89 13 Sept 2020 · 3,567 MW · 409 14 Sept 2020 · 640 MW · 70 17 Sept 2020 · 5 MW · 5 18 Sept 2020 · 6 MW · 2 19 Sept 2020 · 25 MW · 5 20 Sept 2020 · 103 MW · 11 21 Sept 2020 · 36 MW · 10
10 Sept 12 Sept 13 Sept 14 Sept 18 Sept 20 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

24°high
46km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.1 mm on 15 Sept.

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 3.9% of the area of London (61 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. Tyndinsky District where it started
    3,763 ha reached on 10 Sept
    0.0 %
  2. Neryungrinsky Municipal District
    2,472 ha reached on 10 Sept
    0.0 %

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 2020
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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)
4 Sept 21.5 °C 28 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
5 Sept 16.9 °C 72 % 25 km/h 13.2 mm Very low 0
6 Sept 19.4 °C 40 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
7 Sept 20.5 °C 50 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
8 Sept 22.9 °C 41 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
9 Sept 23.1 °C 41 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
10 Sept 22.0 °C 39 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
11 Sept 21.4 °C 50 % 33 km/h 0.3 mm Low 10
12 Sept 23.7 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
13 Sept 23.4 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
14 Sept 20.6 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 14
15 Sept 11.5 °C 85 % 22 km/h 7.1 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Sept 2020
After · 28 Sept 2020

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 · 651Every 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?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 September 2020 to 21 September 2020 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 September 2020 to 14 September 2020.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,147 hectares (61.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tyndinsky District (3,763 ha, 0.0 %); Neryungrinsky Municipal District (2,472 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.7 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 16, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 14 September 2020 → 21 September 2020.

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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 September 2020 to 14 September 2020. 651 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 2020, 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.