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Yurginsky District fire, May 2021 Yurginsky District, Vagaysky District, Aromashevsky District

Out · last detection 8 Jun 2021, 06:42 UTC

The fire started on 4 May 2021 in Yurginsky District, Russia, and satellites saw it burning for 35 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 130,015 hectares from heat detections, spread across 4 municipalities.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

It is the largest fire in Tyumen Oblast since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 11 in Russia in 2021, of 581.

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Burnt area
130,015ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
35days
4 May 2021 – 7 Jun 2021
Municipalities hit
4
districts
Started on
4 May
2021
Heat detections
7,636
in a single hotspot: 252 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Average daily power
2.1GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 May7 Jun
8 Jun 2021

How it evolved, day by day

4 May 2021 · 19 MW · 4 5 May 2021 · 104 MW · 29 6 May 2021 · 8,294 MW · 480 7 May 2021 · 9,350 MW · 752 8 May 2021 · 6,175 MW · 420 9 May 2021 · 3,156 MW · 443 10 May 2021 · 4,135 MW · 508 11 May 2021 · 5,438 MW · 682 12 May 2021 · 2,164 MW · 277 13 May 2021 · 3,548 MW · 439 14 May 2021 · 8,176 MW · 1054 15 May 2021 · 8,792 MW · 853 16 May 2021 · 2,754 MW · 357 17 May 2021 · 3,959 MW · 339 18 May 2021 · 27 MW · 5 19 May 2021 · 6 MW · 2 20 May 2021 · 7 MW · 6 21 May 2021 · 344 MW · 57 22 May 2021 · 395 MW · 79 23 May 2021 · 362 MW · 63 24 May 2021 · 1,033 MW · 187 25 May 2021 · 1,053 MW · 122 26 May 2021 · 49 MW · 8 27 May 2021 · 27 MW · 17 28 May 2021 · 60 MW · 30 29 May 2021 · 1,457 MW · 239 30 May 2021 · 1,002 MW · 156 2 Jun 2021 · 4 MW · 1 3 Jun 2021 · 114 MW · 10 4 Jun 2021 · 2 MW · 1 5 Jun 2021 · 1 MW · 1 6 Jun 2021 · 3 MW · 3 7 Jun 2021 · 164 MW · 11 8 Jun 2021 · 2 MW · 1
7 May 18 May 25 May 3 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
61km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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 82% of the area of London (1,300 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. Yurginsky District where it started
    68,831 ha reached on 4 May
    16 %
  2. Vagaysky District
    33,551 ha reached on 6 May
    1.9 %
  3. Aromashevsky District
    20,923 ha reached on 6 May
    6.1 %
  4. Yarkovsky District
    6,134 ha reached on 5 May
    0.9 %

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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable 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)
4 May 20.9 °C 24 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 May 26.1 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
6 May 18.5 °C 30 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 May 20.1 °C 20 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
8 May 25.3 °C 13 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
9 May 24.0 °C 20 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 May 20.0 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
11 May 24.2 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 May 19.7 °C 22 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 May 27.1 °C 21 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 May 29.7 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 May 31.7 °C 13 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 May 30.0 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
17 May 33.1 °C 13 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
18 May 23.0 °C 44 % 44 km/h 2.9 mm Low 7
19 May 19.0 °C 28 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
20 May 22.1 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 20
21 May 30.6 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 May 30.9 °C 17 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 May 29.7 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 May 30.2 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 May 31.2 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 May 28.8 °C 32 % 61 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 44
27 May 13.3 °C 50 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
28 May 20.4 °C 32 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 May 28.9 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
30 May 30.2 °C 14 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
31 May 23.3 °C 44 % 46 km/h 0.5 mm High 33
1 Jun 17.7 °C 32 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jun 22.0 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Jun 19.7 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
4 Jun 14.8 °C 26 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
5 Jun 24.3 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Jun 26.3 °C 18 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
7 Jun 27.2 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
8 Jun after 16.9 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
9 Jun after 19.4 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Jun after 19.2 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Jun after 21.1 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 Jun after 25.9 °C 21 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Jun after 28.5 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Jun after 30.4 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Jun after 31.2 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 49
16 Jun after 29.0 °C 33 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Jun after 31.0 °C 23 % 48 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 47

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Apr 2021
After · 14 Jun 2021

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 · 7,636Every 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 Yurginsky District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 May 2021 to 7 June 2021 (35 days). The perimeter dates it from 5 May 2021 to 3 June 2021.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 130,015 hectares (1,300.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Yurginsky District (68,831 ha, 16 %); Vagaysky District (33,551 ha, 1.9 %); Aromashevsky District (20,923 ha, 6.1 %); Yarkovsky District (6,134 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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.

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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 3 June 2021 → 7 June 2021.
  2. Start date: 5 May 2021 → 4 May 2021.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 5 May 2021 to 3 June 2021. 7,636 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.