GFMC EARLY WARNING PORTAL: DAILY GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FIRE WEATHER AND CLIMATE FORECASTS & BACKGROUND MATERIALS
Russia: Meteorological Fire Indices
The Russian National Hydrometeorological Service provides regularly updated fire danger maps for the Russian Federation. These can be access through two websites:
The fire danger classes are based on the Nesterov Index:
1 – None
2 – Low
3 – Medium
4 – High
5 – Extreme
See also the Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather Information System, based on the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) and displayed by the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC):
and the Fire danger maps for Eastern Siberia, generated by the Sukachev Institute for Forest, Krasnoyarsk, and published on the GFMC web page Current Significant Global Fire Events Russian Federation three times per week:
