GFMC: Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
23 April 2007
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 (23 April) NOAA 12&14 AVHRR composite
The red squares indicate regions of active fires (MODIS Detection). 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)
Fire situation report of the Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service of Russia (Avialesookhrana), 19 April 2007
According to the wildfire situation report of April 19, 2007 a total of 8 fires affected 89 ha forested and 12 non forested lands, 4 fires of them were reported as new fires. In addition 37 fires occurred that were put out the same day they have started.
Through all of Russia 208 people, 5 aircraft, 62 bulldozers, tractors and engines have been involved in fire fighting.
Since the beginning of the 2007 fire season a total of 540 fires affected 5262 ha forested and 362 ha non-forested lands of the Federal Forest Agency. (For comparison: Last year up to this date 185 fires have burnt 1668 ha forested and 1053 ha non-forested lands.)
Most fires have been reported in the following regions:
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Chita – 2
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Khakasiya – 3
Source: Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service of Russia (Avialesookhrana), prepared for GFMC by Nastya Rodenko
