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Yeravninsky Rayon fire, 19 June 2025 Yeravninsky Rayon

Out · last detection 29 Jun 2025, 05:13 UTC

The fire started on 19 June 2025 in Yeravninsky Rayon, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 14,303 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 19th largest in Buryatia since 2016 (of 198 with a page). Number 46 in Russia in 2025, of 238.

Burnt area
14,303ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
19 Jun 2025 – 29 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
19 Jun
2025
Heat detections
1,216
in a single hotspot: 166 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Average daily power
854MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Jun29 Jun
29 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

19 Jun 2025 · 18 MW · 5 20 Jun 2025 · 180 MW · 41 21 Jun 2025 · 2,043 MW · 202 22 Jun 2025 · 807 MW · 80 23 Jun 2025 · 528 MW · 101 24 Jun 2025 · 1,480 MW · 202 25 Jun 2025 · 3,027 MW · 189 26 Jun 2025 · 285 MW · 28 27 Jun 2025 · 811 MW · 251 28 Jun 2025 · 183 MW · 112 29 Jun 2025 · 29 MW · 5
19 Jun 22 Jun 25 Jun 28 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

33°high
50km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.0 mm on 30 Jun.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 72 ha in 2024.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 9% of the area of London (143 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. Yeravninsky Rayon where it started
    14,283 ha reached on 19 Jun
    0.6 %

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 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

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)

Started with Strong wind: 9.7 % of the area in Russia

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
19 Jun 22.5 °C 20 % 50 km/h 0.2 mm High 26
20 Jun 28.1 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
21 Jun 31.8 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Jun 32.8 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
23 Jun 32.9 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 40
24 Jun 30.1 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
25 Jun 32.7 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Jun 32.6 °C 22 % 43 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 48
27 Jun 30.2 °C 33 % 37 km/h 1.9 mm High 36
28 Jun 27.2 °C 25 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
29 Jun 24.9 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
30 Jun after 20.9 °C 45 % 51 km/h 7.0 mm Moderate 13

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 25.6, a minimum humidity of 20% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 36.

FWI at the start 25.6
Minimum humidity 20 %
Days without rain 0
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Yeravninsky Rayon fire, May 2025
3,514 ha 8 days FWI 26.2 Min. humidity 19 % 48 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.9 mm on 30 May.

What happened to them

9 days
median duration
5,898 ha
median area
17 %
went past 10,000 ha
4.0 mm
rain at the end (median; 34 of 36 had it)

It was 2.4 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 11 days, against 9 days.

Only 6 of its 36 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 2 of 36, 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 4.0 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

7.0 mmfirst rain
30 Junthe day after it ended
50km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 29 Jun, and on 30 Jun 7.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 34 of 36, with a median of 4.0 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 · 12 Jun 2025
After · 6 Jul 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 365 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 224: 15 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak365 µg/m³
Days over the guideline14 days
PM10386 µg/m³
Optical depth3.13
17 Jun21 Jun25 Jun29 Jun
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 1,216Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Yeravninsky Rayon fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 19 June 2025 and 29 June 2025: 11 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 14,303 hectares (143.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Yeravninsky Rayon (14,283 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very 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 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 36. Their median duration was 9 days and their median area 5,898 ha; 17 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 6 of its 36 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 2 of 36, 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 4.0 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. 1,216 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 2025, 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.