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Uglovsky District fire, June 2022 Uglovsky District

Out · last detection 26 Jun 2022, 20:51 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2022 in Uglovsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,393 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 2th largest in Altai Krai since 2016 (of 26 with a page). Number 161 in Russia in 2022, of 400.

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Burnt area
6,393ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
22 Jun 2022 – 27 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jun
2022
Heat detections
276
in a single hotspot: 366 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Average daily power
1.4GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun27 Jun
26 Jun 2022

How it evolved, day by day

22 Jun 2022 · 58 MW · 41 23 Jun 2022 · 522 MW · 120 24 Jun 2022 · 206 MW · 53 25 Jun 2022 · 22 MW · 3 26 Jun 2022 · 6,400 MW · 59
22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
67km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.7 mm on 5 Jul.

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 4% of the area of London (64 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. Uglovsky District where it started
    6,356 ha reached on 22 Jun
    1.3 %

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 area0.34 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.34 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)
22 Jun 34.0 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Jun 33.3 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Jun 29.6 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Jun 34.0 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
26 Jun 36.4 °C 20 % 60 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 54
27 Jun 31.3 °C 39 % 67 km/h 1.5 mm High 36
28 Jun after 24.7 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
29 Jun after 31.5 °C 21 % 60 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 50
30 Jun after 23.1 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Jul after 25.1 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
2 Jul after 25.3 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
3 Jul after 27.1 °C 22 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
4 Jul after 31.5 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Jul after 24.9 °C 36 % 58 km/h 3.7 mm Moderate 12

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 35.7, a minimum humidity of 23% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.

FWI at the start 35.7
Minimum humidity 23 %
Days without rain 0
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Abayskiy fire, September 2017
3,370 ha 1 day FWI 34.8 Min. humidity 23 % 166 km away, in 2017

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.8 mm on 11 Sept.

What happened to them

3 days
median duration
5,255 ha
median area
0 %
went past 10,000 ha
2.2 mm
rain at the end (median; 17 of 17 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (6,393 ha against a median of 5,255 ha) and lasted 6 days, against 3 days.

All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 2.2 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

3.7 mmfirst rain
5 Jul8 days after it ended
67km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 27 Jun, and on 5 Jul 3.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 17 of 17, with a median of 2.2 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 2016.
  • 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 · 15 Jun 2022
After · 4 Jul 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 · 276Every 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 Uglovsky District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 June 2022 and 27 June 2022: 6 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 6,393 hectares (63.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Uglovsky District (6,356 ha, 1.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
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 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 5,255 ha; 0 % went past 10,000 ha. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 2.2 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 276 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.