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Wildfires in Hongta District 红塔区

Hongta District, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,921 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 11 Very low 14° · 81 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 19° · 46 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 46 % · 40 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 21° · 44 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 22° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 20° · 53 % · 30 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Hongta District: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,921
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
2
fires
952
km²

How many times has Hongta District burned?

Hongta District has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Jiangchuan District fire, 11 April 2023, with 1,795 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,921
cumulative ha
11 Apr 2023
most recent

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 Hongta District

  1. 1,795 ha Jiangchuan District fire, 11 April 2023 1.9% of the municipality · 5,257 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,126 ha Hongta District fire, May 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,269 ha in total · 3 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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