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Wildfires in Jiangchuan District 江川区

Jiangchuan District, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 4,600 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% 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. Tue 3 Low 24° · 43 % · 42 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 25° · 40 % · 38 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 26° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 24° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 13° · 67 % · 44 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 64 % · 39 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

4,600
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
2
fires
807
km²

How many times has Jiangchuan District burned?

Jiangchuan District has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2023. The most recent: Jiangchuan District fire, 13 April 2023, with 1,114 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
4,600
cumulative ha
13 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 Jiangchuan District

  1. 1,114 ha Jiangchuan District fire, 13 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,486 ha Jiangchuan District fire, 11 April 2023 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 5,257 ha in total · 5 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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