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Wildfires in Akhtubinsky District

Akhtubinsky District, Russia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,737 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 9 Very low 4° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 6° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 6° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 8° · 80 % · 39 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 9° · 89 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 68 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 70 % · 50 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 5° · 54 % · 49 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Akhtubinsky District: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,737
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
3
fires
5,801
km²

How many times has Akhtubinsky District burned?

Akhtubinsky District has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Leninsky District fire, April 2021, with 484 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
7,737
cumulative ha
12 Apr 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 3,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Russia

Fires that entered Akhtubinsky District

  1. 484 ha Leninsky District fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 4,905 ha Akhtubinsky District fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,890 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,347 ha Znamensk fire, 22 August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 5,517 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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