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Wildfires in Gorkovsky District

Gorkovsky District, Russia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 11,581 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% 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. Sat 14 Very low 1° · 81 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low -0° · 73 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 2° · 73 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 1° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 0° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 0° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 0° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 2° · 70 % · 35 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 Gorkovsky District: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

11,581
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
2
fires
2,983
km²

How many times has Gorkovsky District burned?

Gorkovsky District has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Gorkovsky District fire, April 2023, with 2,798 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,581 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,695 hectares, 3.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  6. 1× 21
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  8. 1× 23
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2
fires
2
years with fire
11,581
cumulative ha
9,695
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 Gorkovsky District

  1. 2,798 ha Gorkovsky District fire, April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 8,783 ha Gorkovsky District fire, April 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 11,089 ha in total · 6 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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