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Wildfires in Laiyuan County 涞源县

Laiyuan County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,773 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 4 Low 13° · 32 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 11° · 24 % · 60 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 7° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 3° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 3° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 4° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 7° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 10° · 26 % · 23 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 Laiyuan County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,773
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
2,449
km²

How many times has Laiyuan County burned?

Laiyuan County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Laiyuan County fire, March 2023, with 2,445 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,773
cumulative ha
9 Mar 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 Laiyuan County

  1. 2,445 ha Laiyuan County fire, March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,329 ha Laiyuan County fire, March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 2 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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