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Wildfires in Chitinsky District

Chitinsky District, Russia, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 518,640 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 25 Very low -2° · 47 % · 48 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low -4° · 40 % · 53 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low -4° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 0° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low -1° · 39 % · 62 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low -7° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low -7° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low -6° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Very low -8° · 55 % · 27 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

518,640
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
40
fires
15,681
km²

How many times has Chitinsky District burned?

Chitinsky District has burned 40 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Chitinsky District fire, 24 June 2025, with 5,446 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 27× 25
  11.   26
40
fires
5
years with fire
518,640
cumulative ha
24 Jun 2025
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 Chitinsky District

  1. 5,446 ha Chitinsky District fire, 24 June 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,262 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 16,167 ha Chitinsky District fire, 22 June 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 16,068 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,600 ha Chitinsky District fire, 22 June 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,267 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 7,322 ha Chitinsky District fire, 20 June 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,343 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 4,061 ha Chitinsky District fire, 4 June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,060 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 4,891 ha Chitinsky District fire, 29 May 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,157 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 4,116 ha Chitinsky District fire, 29 May 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,106 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 23,493 ha Chitinsky District fire, 29 May 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 23,789 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 4,391 ha Karymsky District fire, 28 May 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 7,252 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 146 ha Yeravninsky Rayon fire, 25 May 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,408 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 4,940 ha Chitinsky District fire, 20 May 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,771 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,573 ha Ulyotovsky District fire, 19 May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 6,454 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 766 ha Karymsky District fire, 19 May 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,079 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 7,714 ha Tungokochensky District fire, 12 May 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 105,599 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 42,542 ha Chitinsky District fire, 10 May 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 42,637 ha in total · 30 days
  16. 8,172 ha Chitinsky District fire, 3 May 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,133 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 24,019 ha Khiloksky District fire, 2 May 2025 1.5% of the municipality · 102,893 ha in total · 30 days
  18. 3,187 ha Chitinsky District fire, 2 May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,813 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 163,744 ha Chitinsky District fire, 2 May 2025 where it started 10% of the municipality · 259,015 ha in total · 46 days
  20. 6,265 ha Chitinsky District fire, 2 May 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 13,568 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 53,744 ha Chitinsky District fire, 1 May 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 53,650 ha in total · 29 days
  22. 4,136 ha Chitinsky District fire, 24 April 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,090 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 6,640 ha Chitinsky District fire, 19 April 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,567 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 3,641 ha Chitinsky District fire, 15 April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,607 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 8,700 ha Chitinsky District fire, 13 April 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,653 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 6,159 ha Tungokochensky District fire, 12 April 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 13,466 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 244 ha Tungokochensky District fire, 12 April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 36,628 ha in total · 15 days
  28. 6,700 ha Chitinsky District fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,609 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 15,361 ha Chitinsky District fire, 17 May 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 15,278 ha in total · 20 days
  30. 3,207 ha Chitinsky District fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,226 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 3,381 ha Chitinsky District fire, May 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,407 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 9,754 ha Chitinsky District fire, 26 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,692 ha in total · 11 days
  33. 3,534 ha Chitinsky District fire, 24 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,573 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 4,007 ha Chitinsky District fire, 24 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,992 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 4,188 ha Chitinsky District fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,184 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 7,971 ha Chitinsky District fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,972 ha in total · 18 days
  37. 5,173 ha Chitinsky District fire, 22 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,140 ha in total · 17 days
  38. 32,298 ha Chitinsky District fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 54,243 ha in total · 20 days
  39. 3,468 ha Chitinsky District fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,115 ha in total · 11 days
  40. 777 ha Karymsky District fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 5 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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