Current forest fires in the Russian Federation
Forest Fires in the Russian Federation
20 July 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.
According to the preliminary data of 20 July 2016 a total number of 6028 fires were detected in Siberia (50-70N; 60-140E), Russian Federation since March of 2016, affecting 5.19 million ha of forests and other lands. In the Krasnoyarsk and Evenkiya region, a total of 826 fires detected and 1.86 million ha of forest and other areas affected. It must be noted that these preliminary data will be validated at the end of the year and thus become subject to correction (as 20 July 2016).
Active fires burning in Krasnoyarsk Region and Evenkiya shown on the top map (as 18 July 2016, Source: Krasnoyarsk Joint Science Center for Satellite Remote Sensing). The accumulated locations of the fires between 1 March and 20 July 2016 in the Amurskaya Oblast, Buryatija / Transbaikal / Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk of the Russian Federation can be seen on the lower map. The mapsare 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
Forest fires burning in the north part of Krasnoyarsk Region and Evenkiya (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
Two days after the publication of this GFMC web page the following image was acquired by the NASA MODIS instrument (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
29 June 2016 GFMC web page the following image was acquired by the NASA MODIS instrument (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
Recent news from and about fires burning in Russia
- Russia: Huge swaths of Russia’s forests are ablaze during what may be a record fire season (published by http://mashable.com 18 July 2016)
- Russia: Il-76 crashed due to sudden collision with the ground (published by http://www.pravdareport.com 05 July 2016)
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Russia: “They saved 1,000s of lives”: Russia mourns crew of firefighter plane that crashed in Siberia (published by https://www.rt.com 04 July 2016)
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Russia/GFMC: Letter of condolence sent to the families of the crew of the IL-76 crashed in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia (published by the Global Fire Monitoring Center, 03 July 2016)
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Russia: Additional group of rescuers dispatched to crash site of Ilyushin Il-76 plane of Emergencies Ministry of Russia (published by http://en.mchs.ru 03 July 2016)
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Russia: Russian Firefighting Plane Disappears in Siberia (published by http://abcnews.go.com 1 July 2016)
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Russia: Russian volunteers seek a foothold as wildfires rage in Siberia (published by http://www.nhregister.com 25 June 2016)
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Russia: Almost 16,000 hectares of forest on fire in Russia (published by http://tass.ru 15 June 2016)
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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)
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Russia/USA: Russians visit Montana to learn firefighting systems, resources (published by www.greatfallstribune.com 07 June 2016)
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Russia: Wildfires in Russia grow 2% over past 24 hours to over 8,000 hectares (published by http://tass.ru 07 June 2016)
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Russia: Forests on fire: ‘no attempt will be made to extinguish 219 million hectares of burning trees’ (published by http://siberiantimes.com29 May 2016)
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Russia: Number of forest fires in Russia decreased by 60% over past 24 hours (published by http://tass.ru/ 29 May 2016)
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Russia: Wildfires sweep over 11,000 hectares in Trans-Baikal Territory (published by http://tass.ru 11 May 2016)
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Russia: Dozens Of Wildfires Sweep Across Siberia, Russia’s Far East (published by www.rferl.org 05 May 2016)
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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.
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