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Wildfires in Barguzinsky Rayon

Barguzinsky Rayon, Russia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,614 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% 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. Wed 4 Very low -10° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low -11° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low -12° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low -9° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low -5° · 43 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 1° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 4° · 67 % · 41 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 1° · 57 % · 44 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 Barguzinsky Rayon: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

41,614
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
5
fires
16,448
km²

How many times has Barguzinsky Rayon burned?

Barguzinsky Rayon has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Barguzinsky Rayon fire, June 2025, with 6,044 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,614 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,374 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
41,614
cumulative ha
38,374
distinct ha

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 Barguzinsky Rayon

  1. 6,044 ha Barguzinsky Rayon fire, June 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,083 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 15,420 ha Barguzinsky Rayon fire, May 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 15,337 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 7,247 ha Barguzinsky Rayon fire, May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,205 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 9,038 ha Barguzinsky Rayon fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,055 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,865 ha Barguzinsky Rayon fire, April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,839 ha in total · 12 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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