Forest Fires in the Russian Federation

10 May 2002


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 10 May 2002 shows fire activities in the Russian Federation.

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NOAA 12 & 14 AVHRR composite of 10 May 2002.
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 3 May 2002 a total of 374 fires affected 3027 ha forested  and 328 ha non-forested areas. The 277 fires were put out the same day when it were started. Since the beginning of the 2002 fire season a total of 28 976 fires affected 18 987 ha forested and 8 575 ha non-forested land.
Fire activity spreads out from Far East along the Southern and partly Central parts through the European part of Russia. The Northern place with fires is Leningrad region. The regions with the most frequency of fires are Cheljabinsk region (South Ural) and Altay. There were accordingly occur 85 and 96 a new fires there. All of it were put out during the first day.

There are 7 large fires in Khabarovsk, Tuva, Khakasia and Novosibirsk regions. The biggest one is in Tuva reg. which affected  1000 forest and 1335 Ha non-forest area. 
Source: Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service  of Russia (Avialesookhrana)

Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather Information System
The system has been developed by forest fire researchers from Canada, Russia and Germany is displayed on this website starting 18 July 2001. Complete information and a set of daily fire weather and fire behaviour potential maps covering Eurasia (the Baltic Region, Eastern Europe, countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Mongolia) can be accessed at:
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe/fwf/eurasia.htm

 

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Figure 1. Example of the Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather Information System:
The Experimental Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Russia and neighbouring countries, 9 May 2002.

 

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. A map showing the boundaries of administrative regions and a legend is included below.

 

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Map legend

Administrative boundaries

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Overview map showing large fire locations covering the 10-days period 29 April  to 9 May 2002:

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Overview

 

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Amurskaya Oblast Irkutskaya Oblast 

Kemerovskaya Oblast

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Krasnoyarski Krai Respublika Tuva Irkutskaya Oblast 

 

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.


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