Current forest fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
07 June 2016
Satellite-derived data on the number of active fires and area burned in the Russian Federation
The Remote Sensing Working Group of the Forest Fire Monitoring Laboratory, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences/ Krasnoyarsk Joint Science Center for Satellite Remote Sensing, is monitoring active fires and area burned by satellite remote sensing.
MODIS imagery of burned areas in the Baikal Region (upper) (Source: NASA) and area affected by fires between 1 March and 06 June 2016 in Amurskaya Oblast (middle left) and Buryatija / Transbaikal / Irkutsk. The accumulated locations of the fires between 1 March and 06 June 2016 in the central part of the Russian Federation can be seen on the lower map. The mapyare generated daily by the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation. For official information on the status of wildfires in the territory of the Russian Federation see the website of the Federal Forest Service of Russia: http://www.rosleshoz.gov.ru/forest_fires/info/727
The VIIRS instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this natural-color image of the large wildfire burning near the west coast of Russias Kamchatka Peninsula on 7 June 2016. Smoke from the wildfire was drawn into the vortex circulation of a weak area of low pressure over the Sea of Okhotsk. (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
Recent news from and about fires burning in Russia
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Russia: Animation of satellite images shows smoke from a Russian wildfire getting sucked into a weather system vortex (published by http://blogs.discovermagazine.com 10 June 2016)
- Russia/USA: Russians visit Montana to learn firefighting systems, resources (published by www.greatfallstribune.com 07 June 2016)
- Russia: Wildfires in Russia grow 2% over past 24 hours to over 8,000 hectares (published by http://tass.ru 07 June 2016)
- Russia: Forests on fire: ‘no attempt will be made to extinguish 219 million hectares of burning trees’ (published by http://siberiantimes.com29 May 2016)
- Russia: Number of forest fires in Russia decreased by 60% over past 24 hours (published by http://tass.ru/ 29 May 2016)
- Russia: Wildfires sweep over 11,000 hectares in Trans-Baikal Territory (published by http://tass.ru 11 May 2016)
- Russia: Dozens Of Wildfires Sweep Across Siberia, Russia’s Far East (published by www.rferl.org 05 May 2016)
- Ukraine/Russia: Radioactive Chernobyl forest fires: a ticking time bomb (published by www.greenpeace.org 15 April 2016)
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Russia: Forest fires threaten wipeout for Siberian conifers as deciduous trees take over (Siberian Times, 24 February 2016) (PDF, 0.9 MB)
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Russia: Forests on fire: ‘no attempt will be made to extinguish 219 million hectares of burning trees’ (Siberian Times, 29 May 2016) (PDF, 0.9 MB)
Book Publication on the Use of Prescribed Fire in the Russian Federation (published May 2013)
Background on Wildland Fires in the Russian Federation
- Novosibirsk International Congress on Forest Fire and Climate Change (2013)
- Krasnoyarsk International Fire Management Weeks (2012 and 2013)
- Forest Fire and Smoke Episode in Western Russia 2010
- 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.
