Current forest fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
28 June 2020
Active fires on 26 June 2020 (red) and accumulated locations of the fires between 1 March and 25 June 2020 (black) in Russia East of the Urals. Source: The maps are generated daily by the Regional Eurasia Fire Monitoring Center (REFMC), Sukachev Institute of Forest, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
Fire Weather Index (FWI) and Drought Code (DC) for Eurasia for 26 June 2020.
Source: Eurasia Experimental Fire Weather Information System (under renovation, June 2020)
For official information on the status of wildfires in the territory of the Russian Federation, see the following websites:
- Current active fires: https://aviales.ru/popup.aspx?news=6060
- Fire-weather forecast: https://aviales.ru/popup.aspx?news=6059
Land surface anomalies: Comparative Analyses
Eurasia land-surface temperature anomalies 19 March to 20 June 2020. Source: NASA
Western Siberian surface temperature anomalies for May 2020 and December 2019 to May 2020. Source: Copernicus.
GISTEMP temperature anomalies for the area of interest in Siberia. GISTEMP data (downloaded from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ on 20 May 2020.
Media Reports
- Wildfires ‘critical’ in Siberia and Russian Far East, up to ten times worse than last year (The Siberian Times, 02 May 2020): https://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/wildfires-critical-in-siberia-and-russian-far-east-up-to-ten-times-worse-than-last-year/
- Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia. Unusually high temperatures in region linked to wildfires, oil spill and moth swarms (The Guardian, 17 June 2020): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia
- Heat and fire scorches Siberia (NASA, 24 June 2020): https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146879/heat-and-fire-scorches-siberia?src=eoa-iotd
GFMC Book Publication on the Use of Prescribed Fire in the Russian Federation (published in May 2013)
GFMC Background on Wildland Fires in the Russian Federation
- Novosibirsk International Congress on Forest Fire and Climate Change (2013)
- Krasnoyarsk International Fire Management Weeks (2012 and 2013)
- Forest Fire and Smoke Episode in Western Russia 2010
- IFFN Russian Federation Special Issue (IFFN No. 32, 2005)
- IFFN Russian Federation 2002 Fire Special (IFFN No. 28, 2003)
- IFFN Reports from Russia (1992-2010)
- Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN)
Bibliography on fire in ecosystems of boreal Eurasia
One of the results of the first international fire science conference in the Russian Federation (1993) was the publication of a monograph on fire in boreal Eurasia, including some selected contributions on boreal North America. The literature cited in the monograph contains numerous publications, which in many cases are not easily accessible. To facilitate literature search the bibliographical sources are provided by topic (chapter).
Goldammer, J.G. and V.V. Furyaev. 1996. Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 390 p.