GFMC: Forest Fires in the Russian Federation, 8 June 2001
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
8 June 2001
Avialesookhrana from the National Forest Fire Centre of Russia provides up-to-date NOAA images for the whole of the Russian Federation and neighbour territories. The Space Monitoring Information Support Laboratory provides extensive links to sites with satellite imagery for the Russian Federation, meteorological information as well as fire related images are accessible.
The NOAA AVHRR satellite image composite of 8 June 2001 shows fire activities in the Russian Federation.
NOAA 12 & 14 AVHRR composite of 8 June 2001, 01:37 GMT.
The red squares indicate regions of active fires. For details the GFMC readers are encouraged to
use the hyperlinks provided by Avialesookhrana, the Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service of the
Federal Forest service of Russia. (Source: Avialesookhrana cloudiness maps)
According to the situation report of the Ministry of Natural Resources of 7 June 2001 a total of 186 fires affected 1,011 ha forested and 62 ha non-forested areas. Since the beginning of the 2001 fire season a total of 8,169 fires affected 110,761 ha forested and 60,798 ha non-forested land. Highest fire activities on 7 June occurred in Irkutsk. There were 9 large fires in Irkutsk region (the largest is 1,055 ha). Two large fires burned in Altay Region (1,006 ha and 16,550 ha). The last fire started in the Altay State Preserve on 28 May 2001. On 3 June it had spread to 1,000 ha. Strong winds on 4 June blew up the fires which spread over 16,200 ha, of which 13,000 ha burned as crown fire. Yesterday the fire could not be observed due to low clouds and fire activity slowing down.
(SOURCE: Yevgheny Shuktomov, Aerial Forest Fire Protection ServiceAvialesookhrana )
Daily Fire Occurrence and Fire Danger Maps of the Fire Laboratory of the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk
Selected fire occurrence maps, satellite images and a forest fire danger map are prepared daily by the Russian GFMC correspondent Dr. Anatoly Sukhinin, Fire Laboratory of the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, in collaboration with the Emergency Situation Monitoring and Forecasting Agency, Krasnoyarsk branch. The maps are produced on the base of satellite data (classification by the NOAA AVHRR). They show the fire locations (by latitude and longitude) and the area affected by fire (red signature, size in ha). The red arrow at each fire location points to the nearest populated place. The terms Oblast or Krai used in the maps are designations of administrative regions. Updated fire danger maps are provided about two to three times per week.
Map legend
Coverage map showing
regional boundaries
7 June 2001:
Republic of Yakutia Ust-Ordinskiy Burjatskiy Autonomous Region Irkutskaia Oblast
Irkutskaia Oblast Irkutskaia Oblast Irkutskaia Oblast
Irkutskaia Oblast Irkutskaia Oblast Irkutskaia Oblast
Buryatia Republic Buryatia Republic Buryatia Republic
Buryatia Republic Chitinskaia Oblast
The following satellite image from MODIS Web is showing both the wildfires and the heavy snow coverage in the Angara Region:
Fires in the Angara Region on 28 May 2001 depicted by MODIS.
(Source: MODIS / NASA)
For more background information on the Russian Federation see: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation, Mongolia and China: See IFFN Country Notes. Scientific details on fire in the Russian Federation are provided by the Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN) report.
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.
