GFMC: Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
12 Mai 2003
Latest Satellite Images:
Fires in south eastern Russia
In south eastern Russia (near chinese border), scores of fires are burning on 09 May 2003. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite shows active fires marked with red dots. The fires are producing rivers of smoke which extend far to the south into China and have spread eastward over the Pacific Ocean.
Source: MODIS
Heat signatures (red) and smoke (light blue haze) are visible from fires burning in parts of Russia, China and Mongolia in this image from 07 May 2003, captured by the Aqua satellite.
Source: OSEI
Latest fullday Earth Probe TOMS Aerosol Index map.
(Source: NASA GSFC)
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 shows fire activities in the Russian Federation.
Latest NOAA 12&14 AVHRR composite
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)
Latest fire situation report by the Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service of Russia (Avialesookhrana), 12 May 2003
For the last days fire activities retain very severe around Lake Baikal. Worming up in Western Siberia and Central European part. According to the situation report of the Ministry of Natural Resources of 11 May 2003 a total of 413 fires affected 27,150 ha forested and 2,466 ha non-forested areas. 119 fires of them were reported as new fires. In addition 102 fires occurred that were put out the same day when they started.
Since the beginning of the 2003 fire season a total of 6,851 fires affected 338,800 ha forested and 140,608 ha non-forested land under the responsibility of the Ministry of Natural Resources. (For comparison: Last year up to this date 6,407 fires had burnt 70,449 ha forested and 37,769 ha non-forested lands.)
Most fires have been reported in the following regions:
Chita region – 159 fires
Buriatia – 89
Irkutsk – 48
Khabarovsk – 22
Amur 17
Altay-17
Krasnoiarsk-9
Tjumen-52
Novosibirsk-9
Sverdlovsk-9
Cheliabinsk-8
Voronezh-8
Penza-6
Moscow-3
Large fires were reported in:
Chita region – 122 fires, the biggest is 7,000 ha. 55 of them-are contained. 24 large fires were put out for last day/
Buriatia 17 fires, the biggest is 760 ha
Altay 7 fires, the biggest is 1,000 ha. All of them in contained stage.
Irkutsk -7 fires, the biggest is 455 ha. All of them in contained stage.
Khabarovsk-9 fires, the biggest is 1,600 ha.
Amur-5 fires, the biggest is 7,500 ha.
Through all of Russia 6,451 people, 63 aircraft, 1,054 bulldozers, tractors and engines have been involved in fire fighting.
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:
https://gfmc.online/fwf/eurasia1.htm
Example of the Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather Information System:
Latest map of the Experimental Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Russia and neighbouring countries
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 Kray used in the maps are designations of administrative regions. A map showing the boundaries ofadministrative regions and a legend is included below.
Map legend
Administrative boundaries
Overview map showing large fire locations detected over the last 10 days
Overview
Latest maps maps showing fire activities (selection)
Buryatiya Republic Buryatiya Republic Amurskaya Oblast
Amurskaya Oblast Amurskaya Oblast Chitinskaya Oblast
Chitinskaya Oblast Novosibirskaya Oblast Kemerovskaya Oblast
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation:
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.
