Fire near Khabarovsk (RU)

48.86°N, 134.39°E · first detected on 22 October at 04:10

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 22 October at 04:10 to 23 October at 02:28, through 212 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 3,713 ha.

Detected extent: 3,713 ha
Cumulative power: 5,060 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 577 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 212

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 3 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power summed over the pass	Detections	Sensor
23 October at 06:40	47 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 06:30	50 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 06:20	119 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 05:50	171 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 05:40	242 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 05:30	386 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 05:20	316 MW	3	Him9
23 October at 05:00	118 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 04:50	506 MW	3	Him9
23 October at 04:45	796 MW	34	N21
23 October at 04:30	394 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 04:20	320 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 04:10	408 MW	3	Him9
23 October at 04:00	219 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 03:50	110 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 03:40	207 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 03:30	149 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 03:20	194 MW	2	Him9
23 October at 03:10	110 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 03:00	84 MW	1	Him9
23 October at 02:28	271 MW	6	Terra
22 October at 21:51	79 MW	3	Aqua
22 October at 19:56	139 MW	22	N20
22 October at 19:50	52 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 19:40	185 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 19:37	436 MW	34	N
22 October at 19:20	63 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 19:10	55 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 18:58	127 MW	29	N21
22 October at 18:40	134 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 18:30	302 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 18:20	229 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 18:13	204 MW	20	N20
22 October at 18:10	265 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 18:00	311 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 17:50	156 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 17:20	42 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 16:10	38 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 16:00	40 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 14:40	52 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 14:30	139 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 14:10	50 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 14:00	42 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 13:50	191 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 13:40	313 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 13:30	47 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 13:20	295 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 13:10	301 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 13:00	207 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 13:00	174 MW	6	Terra
22 October at 12:50	70 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 12:40	246 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 12:30	87 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 12:20	129 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 12:00	76 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 11:30	49 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 11:20	202 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 11:10	217 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 11:00	228 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 10:50	472 MW	4	Him9
22 October at 10:40	412 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 10:30	439 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 10:20	832 MW	4	Him9
22 October at 10:10	388 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 10:00	127 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 09:50	219 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 09:40	215 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 09:30	305 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 09:20	340 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 09:10	412 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 09:00	600 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 08:50	910 MW	4	Him9
22 October at 08:40	603 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 08:30	224 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 08:22	689 MW	5	Aqua
22 October at 08:00	193 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 07:50	644 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 07:40	767 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 07:30	365 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 07:23	873 MW	22	N
22 October at 07:20	381 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 07:10	571 MW	6	Him9
22 October at 07:00	328 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 06:50	470 MW	6	Him9
22 October at 06:44	771 MW	52	N21
22 October at 06:40	1,588 MW	4	Him9
22 October at 06:30	1,269 MW	8	Him9
22 October at 06:20	586 MW	7	Him9
22 October at 06:10	234 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 06:00	821 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 05:50	856 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 05:40	1,538 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 05:30	1,365 MW	4	Him9
22 October at 05:20	2,516 MW	5	Him9
22 October at 05:10	489 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 05:04	1,298 MW	13	N21
22 October at 05:00	716 MW	3	Him9
22 October at 04:50	439 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 04:20	124 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 04:10	126 MW	2	Him9

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