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Ust-Ilimsky fire, 11 June 2017 Ust-Ilimsky

Out · last detection 27 Jun 2017, 19:27 UTC

The fire started on 11 June 2017 in Ust-Ilimsky, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,032 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 105th largest in Irkutsk Oblast since 2016 (of 428 with a page). Number 56 in Russia in 2017, of 369.

Burnt area
11,032ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
17days
11 Jun 2017 – 27 Jun 2017
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
11 Jun
2017
Heat detections
905
in a single hotspot: 570 MW
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index
Energy released
17.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

27 Jun 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jun27 Jun

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

33°high
53km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 16.9 mm on 2 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
    11,184 ha reached on 11 Jun
    0.3 %

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)
11 Jun 28.2 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
12 Jun 28.5 °C 35 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
13 Jun 18.9 °C 50 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm Low 10
14 Jun 22.0 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
15 Jun 24.5 °C 37 % 26 km/h 1.0 mm Low 8
16 Jun 26.3 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 13
17 Jun 27.5 °C 39 % 36 km/h 2.6 mm Low 5
18 Jun 21.5 °C 40 % 36 km/h 0.7 mm Low 9
19 Jun 24.7 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
20 Jun 29.5 °C 32 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
21 Jun 32.8 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Jun 32.9 °C 26 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
23 Jun 29.1 °C 42 % 21 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 17
24 Jun 25.7 °C 64 % 38 km/h 23.9 mm Very low 0
25 Jun 24.3 °C 58 % 29 km/h 1.6 mm Very low 1
26 Jun 22.8 °C 61 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
27 Jun 24.7 °C 52 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
28 Jun after 25.8 °C 63 % 23 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 4
29 Jun after 29.0 °C 49 % 19 km/h 0.2 mm Low 8
30 Jun after 30.4 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
1 Jul after 30.1 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
2 Jul after 26.8 °C 59 % 41 km/h 16.9 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 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 · 905Every 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 11 June 2017 and 27 June 2017: 17 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 11,032 hectares (110.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ust-Ilimsky (11,184 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.