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Ust-Ilimsky fire, June 2016 Ust-Ilimsky, Братский район

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2016, 18:57 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2016 in Ust-Ilimsky, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,167 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 130th largest in Irkutsk Oblast since 2016 (of 428 with a page). Number 230 in Russia in 2016, of 694.

Burnt area
9,167ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
24days
10 Jun 2016 – 3 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
10 Jun
2016
Heat detections
715
in a single hotspot: 40 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Energy released
3.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Jul 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun3 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
50km/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: 16.3 mm on 4 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Ust-Ilimsky where it started
    8,537 ha reached on 10 Jun
    0.2 %
  2. Братский район
    323 ha reached on 23 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)
10 Jun 25.3 °C 31 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
11 Jun 26.8 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
12 Jun 26.9 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
13 Jun 26.9 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 15
14 Jun 27.0 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
15 Jun 21.5 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
16 Jun 24.4 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
17 Jun 20.8 °C 48 % 49 km/h 1.3 mm Low 8
18 Jun 15.1 °C 71 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
19 Jun 19.4 °C 27 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
20 Jun 20.8 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
21 Jun 22.8 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 19
22 Jun 24.6 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
23 Jun 26.4 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
24 Jun 28.5 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
25 Jun 25.7 °C 33 % 19 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
26 Jun 20.9 °C 39 % 44 km/h 4.3 mm Very low 5
27 Jun 22.7 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
28 Jun 26.1 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Jun 30.0 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
30 Jun 29.8 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
1 Jul 31.1 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
2 Jul 26.4 °C 43 % 28 km/h 1.5 mm Low 10
3 Jul 24.2 °C 54 % 24 km/h 5.7 mm Very low 2
4 Jul after 17.1 °C 85 % 22 km/h 16.3 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 Jun 2016
After · 10 Jul 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 · 715Every 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 Ust-Ilimsky fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 June 2016 and 3 July 2016: 24 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 9,167 hectares (91.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ust-Ilimsky (8,537 ha, 0.2 %); Братский район (323 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, 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.