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Wildfires in Hua County 滑县

Hua County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 4,152 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Tue 27 Low 18° · 27 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 20° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 22° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 24° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 32 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 42 % · 21 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

4,152
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,746
km²

How many times has Hua County burned?

Hua County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Hua County fire, October 2023, with 1,262 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,152 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,215 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,152
cumulative ha
3,215
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 Hua County

  1. 1,262 ha Hua County fire, October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,890 ha Hua County fire, October 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,880 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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