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Surface Temperature Anomaly (°C) June 18–25 of 2021 compared to average temperatures of the same time period 2003-2013. Causes of the fires include monitoring difficulties, [14] the shifting patterns of the jet stream and climate change in Russia. [4] The fires were one of several extreme weather events that occurred globally in 2021. [15]
The 2010 Russian wildfires were several hundred wildfires that broke out across Russia, primarily in the west in summer 2010. They started burning in late July and lasted until early September 2010. They started burning in late July and lasted until early September 2010.
2019 Siberia wildfires Russia: 7,800,000 0 [12] 9 2014 Northwest Territories fires Canada: 3,000,000 0 [13] 10 2020 California wildfires United States: 1,779,730 33 [14] 11 2010 Bolivia forest fires Bolivia: 1,500,000 0 [15] 12 2006–2007 Australian bushfire season Australia: 1,300,000 5 [16] 13 2017 British Columbia wildfires Canada ...
Thousands of wildfires engulf broad expanses of Russia each year, destroying forests and shrouding regions in acrid smoke. Many other regions across the vast country also have battled wildfires.
The 2021 wildfires' smoke reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history. Russia state news agency TASS cited Sakha deputy minister of ecology, nature management and forestry Andrey ...
2018 Russian wildfires; 2019 Russian wildfires – 27,000 km 2 (2.7 million ha; 6.7 million acres) were burning as of 2 August according to Russia's Federal Forestry Agency (3.3 million ha (8.2 million acres) according to Greenpeace). [18] 2020 Russian wildfires; 2021 Russian wildfires; 2022 Siberian wildfires; 2024 Russian wildfires
The heatwave and wildfires of 2010 in Russia resulted in around 14,000 heat and air-pollution related deaths, as well as around 25% crop failure that year, more than 10,000 km 2 of burned area and around 15 billion US dollars of economic losses.
As of 6 August, Russia's Aerial Forest Protection Service was fighting 161 fires on 140,000 ha (350,000 acres), and only monitoring others. The smoke from the fires made aerial firefighting unsafe. [10] In 2020, extreme heat fueled enormous outbreaks of wildfires in the Arctic Circle exceeding the 2019 record for CO 2 emissions.