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Bansi fire, April 2022 Bansi

Out · last measured on 19 Apr 2022

The fire started on 14 April 2022 in Bansi, India, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,040 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 30th largest in Uttar Pradesh since 2016 (of 30 with a page). Number 27 in India in 2022, of 28.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
5,040ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
14 Apr 2022 – 19 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
1
subdistricts
Started on
14 Apr
2022
Danger at start
68
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

42°high
48km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 47 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 29 Apr.

This area had burned before

95% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 981 ha in 2016, 2,055 ha in 2017, 3,555 ha in 2018, 4,273 ha in 2019, 232 ha in 2020, 1,781 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,786 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Bansi where it started
    5,057 ha
    7.6 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
14 Apr 41.3 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
15 Apr 40.8 °C 16 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
16 Apr 41.3 °C 16 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
17 Apr 41.5 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
18 Apr 41.5 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
19 Apr 38.4 °C 37 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Apr after 38.2 °C 37 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
21 Apr after 37.0 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
22 Apr after 39.8 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
23 Apr after 40.4 °C 16 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
24 Apr after 40.8 °C 14 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 79
25 Apr after 41.2 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
26 Apr after 42.0 °C 14 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
27 Apr after 41.2 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
28 Apr after 39.6 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
29 Apr after 39.8 °C 38 % 39 km/h 1.3 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 7 Apr 2022
After · 26 Apr 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bansi fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 April 2022 and 19 April 2022: 6 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,040 hectares (50.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bansi (5,057 ha, 7.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 41.5 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 68, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.