GFMC: Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
02 July 2010
GFMC analysis (comment inserted ex-post on this web page on 18 August 2010): By 16 August 2010 it has been noted that a wrong algorithm for the calculation of area burned had been applied since the beginning of 2009. The corrected data for the whole fire season are published starting 18 August 2010. A 2010 summary will be published at the end of the fire season.
Fire danger map for July for Eastern Siberia:
Source: Sukachev Institute for Forest, Krasnoyarsk
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 (02 July 2010 09:00 GMT) 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)
FFires burned across eastern Siberia north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in early July 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on July 7, 2010. Red outlines indicate hotspots related to fires, and smoke plumes rise from those hotspots. The plumes blow in different directions, indicating different wind directions in the region.
Wildfire situation report of the Aerial Forest Fire Center of Russia (Avialesookhrana)
02 July, 2010
According to the wildfire situation report of 2 July 2010 a total of
127 fires affected 6,479 ha forested and 170 ha non-forested lands.
57 fires of them were reported as new fires.
Through all of Russia 4,033 people, 63 aircraft, 855 bulldozers, tractors and engines have
been involved in fire fighting.
Since the beginning of the 2010 fire season a total of 14,889 fires
affected 238,388 ha forested and 102,993 ha non-forested lands of the Forest Fund of Russia.
Most fires have been reported in the following regions:
Krasnoyarsk region – 13
Hanti-mansiysk region – 13
Habarovsk region – 13
There are large fires in following regions:
Zabaikalsk region 5 fires,burning area 2,207 ha forested lands and 160 ha non-forested lands.
Nizhniy Novgorod region – 7 fires,burning area 1,900 ha forested lands and 1,600 ha non-forested lands.
Mariy El republic – 2 fires,burning area 3,215 ha forested lands and 40 ha non-forested lands.
Source: Aerial Forest Fire Center of Russia (Avialesookhrana)
Prepared for GFMC by Andrey Eritsov and Andrey Usachev
Fire Report from Republic of Mari El, 2 July 2010
A 20-hectare blaze was spotted on June 27 at 2:05 p.m. in the Kuyarsky forestry in the Medvedevsky district, the Republic of Mari El. Photo: A forest fire in the Republic of Mari El. Source of the following photos: Ria Novosti (http://en.rian.ru/):
The fire started on June 27 one kilometer away from the village of Veshenskaya. The flames were fueled by the extreme temperature of 36°C and a strong wind with a speed of up to 27 meters per second. Photo: Rescue workers and fire fighters extinguishing a forest fire in the Sholokhov District, Rostov Region.
The area of forests affected by wild fires in the republic has totaled 1,200 hectares due to dry weather, high temperatures reaching 35°C, low humidity and strong winds. A creeping fire developed into a major blaze and is spreading to the northeast.
Fire fighting crews spent two days battling a forest fire in the Rostov Region.
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/eurasia.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 of administrative 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 of 02 July 2010 (selection):
Khakass Republic Krasnodar Kray Irkutsk Region
More maps of other regions are available on request: info@gfmc.org
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation:
- IFFN Russian Federation Special Issue (IFFN 32)
- Russia 2002 fire report
- IFFN Russian Federation 2002 Fire Special (IFFN 28)
- IFFN Reports from Russia
- Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN)
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.
