Table 1.

Burned area estimates in Russia.

burned areas (km2)	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
total burned areas	15 405a	114 914a	54 338a	97 065a	75 600a	121 419a	220 000b	n.a.
burned forest areas	7764a	69 063a	24 941a	51 056a	34 624a	74 794a	144 746c	28 950d

^aFrom Sukhinin et al. (2004) for east of the Urals.

^bFrom Schiermeier (2005).

^cFrom Goldammer et al. (2003).

^dExtrapolated from Goldammer et al. (2003) and Karpachevskiy (2004).