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Wildfires in Heqing County 鹤庆县

Heqing County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,008 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Low 24° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 24° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 25° · 38 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 25° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 24° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 24° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 24° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,008
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
2
fires
2,348
km²

How many times has Heqing County burned?

Heqing County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Heqing County fire, January 2019, with 1,676 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,008 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,848 hectares, 0.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,008
cumulative ha
1,848
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in China →

Fires that entered Heqing County

  1. 1,676 ha Heqing County fire, January 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,333 ha Heqing County fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Lee Beryman, OpenStreetMap (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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