This post was split off from the “Accounts” section of Nömrög (Numrug) Grassland Fire in Dornod, Mongolia: Satellite Monitoring and Weather and is updated separately. Satellite monitoring, the burned area and the assessment near the border are in that post. ...
Around noon on 8 October 2026, a fire started in the Nömrög Strictly Protected Area in Khalkhgol sum, Dornod Province, Mongolia, about 27 km from the China–Mongolia border. The vehicle that caught fire belonged to Mobicom, a Mongolian mobile operator and a consolidated subsidiary 98.8% owned by KDDI1. Mobicom acknowledged that the vehicle fire spread to the grassland and said the group was there to hand over communication works for border posts and the border port and to survey local conditions2. Mongolian media reported that the convoy entered the reserve to catch taimen3; the cause of the fire is still under police investigation4. The fire was fully extinguished on the morning of 16 October5. On 20 October the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change put the preliminary burned area at 528,765.5 ha, of which 468,965.7 ha lies inside the reserve, 79.8% of the reserve6. ...