Russia’s wildfires still burning – Damage is triple last year’s
Russian wildfires since the start of the year have destroyed almost three times the forest and crop areas damaged a year earlier, when the country experienced its worst drought in half a century, the government said.
Wildfires have ravaged almost 635,568 hectares (1.57 million acres) of land since Jan. 1, up from about 216,374 hectares in the same period last year. About 44,641 hectares of mostly forest area, including three fires in protected areas, are still burning, the ministry said. Wildfires, many ignited by smoldering peat fields, scorched an area three times the size of Luxembourg, killed more than 50 people and burned hundreds of private homes last year.(Bloomberg)
Since the beginning of fire risk period in 2011 in the Russian Federation emerged 12 716 outbreaks of wildfires on the total area of 791,995.60 hectares. EMERCOM
Change in area and the number of active fires
| Federal Districts
(Subjects |
Valid fires
count / area of active burning / Total area, ha / including large (area, ha) |
Dynamics of change
the number of foci and fire severity |
|
| on 15.06.2011g. | on 16.06.2011g. | ||
| The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) | 8 / 9.38
308.5 0 / 0, 0 |
6 / 7.94
388.0 0 / 0, 0 |
Reduce by 2 focal increase of 79.5 ha |
| Amur Region | 3 / 13.5
267.0 0 / 0, 0 |
6 / 11.5
527.0 0 / 0, 0 |
Increase of 3 focus on 260.0 hectares Increase |
| Far Eastern Federal District | 11/23, 3
575.5 0 / 0 |
12/19, 44
915.0 0 / 0 |
Increased focus on an increase of 339.5 ha |
| Tomsk
area |
2 / 0.75
4.5 0 / 0 |
0 / 0
0 0 / 0 |
Reduce by 2 focus
Decrease of 4.5 ha |
| Krasnoyarsk Territory | 63 / 146.73
14030.7 14/12680, 0 |
59 / 116.64
9939.6 9 / 8410, 0 |
The decrease in 4 focus
The decrease of 4091.1 ha |
| Irkutsk
area |
72 / 127.72
7084.0 0 / 0 |
61 / 96.12
5813.8 4 / 3142, 0 |
Decrease by 11 centers
The decrease of 1270.2 ha |
| Trans-Baikal Territory | 20 / 36.16
1667.2 0 / 0 |
20 / 29.98
1241.7 0 / 0 |
No change
The decrease of 425.5 ha |
| Republic
Buryatia |
24 / 25.77
828.5 0 / 0 |
20 / 14.44
519.63 0 / 0 |
The decrease in 4 focus
The decrease of 308.87 ha |
| Siberian Federal District | 181/337, 12
23614.9 18/15169, 0 |
160/257, 21
17514.73 13/11552, 0 |
Decrease by 21 focus
The decrease of 6100.17 ha |
| Yamalo-Nenets | 6 / 1.1
155.0 0 / 0 |
0 / 0
0 0 / 0 |
Decrease in one source
The decrease of 155.0 ha |
| Urals | 6 / 1, 1
155.0 0 / 0 |
0 / 0
0 0 / 0 |
The decrease in 6 centers
The decrease of 155.0 ha |
| Komi Republic | 1 / 2.1
2.1 0 / 0 |
1 / 2.1
2.1 0 / 0 |
No change
No change |
| Arkhangelsk Region | 1 / 1
40 0 / 0 |
1 / 1.5
15 0 / 0 |
Increased focus on a
Decrease by 25 hectares |
| Murmansk region | 0 / 0
0 0 / 0 |
1 / 13
13 0 / 0 |
Increased focus on a
Increase of 13 ha |
| Pskov Region | 1 / 0
10 0 / 0 |
4 / 1
20.2 0 / 0 |
Increased focus on three
Increase of 10.2 ha |
| North-West | 3 / 1
52.1 0 / 0 |
8 / 17, 6
50.3 0 / 0 |
Increase by 5 foci
Decrease of 1.8 ha |
| Total for Russia | 201/362, 52
24397.5 18/15196, 0 |
180/294, 25
18480.03 13/11552, 00 |
Decrease by 21 focus
The decrease of 5917.47 ha |
The number of hotbeds of wildfires and areas in fire decreased in Siberian Federal District
Space images of the Russian Federation, where forest fires have emerged and continue burning
Area of active burning and the number of wildfire hotbeds in Russian forests have decreased over 24 hours
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