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Tyukalinsky District fire, 12 April 2022 Tyukalinsky District, Kolosovsky District

Out · last detection 17 Apr 2022, 08:53 UTC

The fire started on 12 April 2022 in Tyukalinsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,072 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 96th largest in Omsk Oblast since 2016 (of 148 with a page). Number 278 in Russia in 2022, of 400.

The power measured by the satellite is low (27.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
4,072ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
12 Apr 2022 – 19 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
12 Apr
2022
Heat detections
230
in a single hotspot: 27 MW
Danger at start
9
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
265MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Apr19 Apr
17 Apr 2022

How it evolved, day by day

13 Apr 2022 · 739 MW · 84 14 Apr 2022 · 316 MW · 63 15 Apr 2022 · 167 MW · 62 16 Apr 2022 · 17 MW · 8 17 Apr 2022 · 84 MW · 13
13 Apr 14 Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr

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

The weather it burned in

23°high
44km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 20 Apr.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 504 ha in 2018, 263 ha in 2019, 150 ha in 2020, 301 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,140 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.6% of the area of London (41 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. Tyukalinsky District where it started
    3,022 ha reached on 13 Apr
    0.5 %
  2. 1,037 ha reached on 13 Apr
    0.2 %

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 area0.19 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.19 hectares of 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)
12 Apr 13.7 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
13 Apr 16.5 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
14 Apr 19.4 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
15 Apr 23.4 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
16 Apr 20.7 °C 24 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
17 Apr 12.5 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
18 Apr 9.1 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
19 Apr 8.8 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.6 mm Low 11
20 Apr after 8.2 °C 50 % 35 km/h 1.0 mm Very low 3

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 9.4, a minimum humidity of 21% and 8 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2017: 30.

FWI at the start 9.4
Minimum humidity 21 %
Days without rain 8
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Ust-Tarksky District fire, April 2021
5,495 ha 4 days FWI 9.6 Min. humidity 21 % 164 km away, in 2021

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.6 mm on 28 Apr.

What happened to them

6 days
median duration
4,279 ha
median area
17 %
went past 10,000 ha
2.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 22 of 30 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (4,072 ha against a median of 4,279 ha) and lasted 8 days, against 6 days.

In 8 of 30, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

1.0 mmfirst rain
20 Aprthe day after it ended
44km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 19 Apr, and on 20 Apr 1.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 22 of 30, with a median of 2.7 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2017.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Apr 2022
After · 26 Apr 2022

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 · 230Every 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 Tyukalinsky District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 April 2022 to 19 April 2022 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 April 2022 to 17 April 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,072 hectares (40.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tyukalinsky District (3,022 ha, 0.5 %); Kolosovsky District (1,037 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.4 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2017 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 30. Their median duration was 6 days and their median area 4,279 ha; 17 % went past 10,000 ha. In 8 of 30, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.

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: 17 April 2022 → 19 April 2022.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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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 12 April 2022 to 17 April 2022. 230 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.